Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buyers choose according to their tastes. Gold and silver and lead; In the hands of a purchaser they may become anything. But there are some in when none of the display is attractive. This, they think, is strange, Where so many are satisfied to exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think...
Jerome Davis Greene, Manhattan Republican, partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., long associated with the Rockefeller Foundation. Reason: doubt that Nominee Hoover has sufficient "diplomacy and tact" to lead Congress and public opinion...
This reintegration evinced itself in the cosmic rays, which he described as the "birth-cries" of the atoms, radiations pouring in upon the earth from infinite space by night as well as by day, a fact excluding solar explanations, emanation capable of penetrating eighteen feet of lead, a far greater depth than any other known rays...
...There are a number of reasons . . . bitter opposition of big producers. . . . Perhaps I haven't the qualities needed to lead this particular group...
...last week, was to announce that he would support the Democratic ticket from the president down, for the following reason: "The Prohibition issue which I have objected to having injected into national campaigns was brought to the fore by the Republican party, in order to befuddle the public and lead them away from the real issue of the campaign, an economic issue . . . specifically, farm relief...