Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exeter took an easy second place with 42 points, while Huntington with 18 1-2 points nosed out Worcester, winner of third place last year. Both teams held a decisive lead over Medford which finished fifth...
...skill, lives right up to all his name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey nor France can afford to risk such an event, which would assuredly wreck the Lausanne conference. Nevertheless, the Turks met the French ultimatum to withdraw troops from the Syrian frontier by increasing their army...
...Ramsey Macdonald, British Labor Leader, in a recent number of the Socialist Review animadverts upon riotous behavior in the House of Commons: " I detest these scenes. One heated furnace of a man can lead the legitimate calls of ' adjourn ' into the badly sung strains of Rule Britannia or The Red Flag or Tipperary or fisticuffs and not only make a fool of himself but degrade everyone associated with him. Fascism was stimulated into life by communist tactics...
...interview subsequent to his voluntary resignation, Signor di Vecchi said: " In my Turin speech I purposely mentioned the road along which I dare hope our leader will lead Fascismo, which I believe to be at the turning point of its history." He also reaffirmed his faith in Fascista doctrines and his obedience to Mussolini...
...Chrisian Science Monitor is in favor of Prohibition, and for that reason it hates to print anything that would lead a reader to suppose that legislative rulings pleasing to the " drys " are not being received with acclaim the world over...