Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Fundamentals Association. Elsewhere in the U. S. started the American Anti-False Science League, the Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools. In the legislatures ot 16 other States similar bills were introduced. And last week citizens of the U. S. had to realize, perhaps wearily, that the tumult and the shouting about Evolution has started again with vigor renewed...
Acme White Lead & Color Works...
...title to various Montana copper properties (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda also has large foreign properties, notably the Chile Copper Co., acquired in 1923 from the Guggenheims and said to possess the largest copper deposit in the world; the Andes Copper Mining Co., also in Chile, and extensive zinc and lead holdings in Poland and Silesia. An extremely important Anaconda subsidiary is the American Brass Co., the world's largest manufacturer of brass products. In 1927, Anaconda and its Chile companies together produced 297,541 tons of copper...
...American Smelting & Refining Co. is the world's largest smelting and refining organization, but is interested in lead and silver as well as in copper, and smelts and refines much ore produced by Kennecott, Phelps-Dodge, Utah and other copper concerns...
...Yale News has recently published an editorial advising the undergraduate who wishes to lead an outdoor life to go to Labrador with the Crenfell Mission to play Good Samaritan to God's frozen children. The laudable, or lamentable tendencies of Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances...