Word: steered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working and watching their interests. They don't want me running around after a golf ball. No golfer or invalid can manage a business that has a claim to the name. If it is any kind of a business at all, it needs somebody who is alive to steer...
...ramifications almost illimitable. The professor not only has the Scylla and Charybdis of modern life and academic needs to steer between, he has the waters of misunderstanding and prejudice through which to make his patient way. For when he becomes ironic he loses his prestige as a scholar, and when he loses his irony he becomes dull. Then newspapers and journals to quote George Ross in the "Atlantic"--send back his efforts, kindly but with little scruple about his past prestige. But more than all he must weather the shoals of thought into which the winds of mere courtesy...
Indiana in 1923 had perhaps 200,000 members, but probably not over 50,000 at present. It has wielded great political power, but this is waning, although politicians in general steer clear of incurring its wrath. In recent municipal elections it succeeded in some cities and failed in others. Its former Grand Dragon is serving a life term in prison for murder of a girl...
...excellent range animals for the vast northern territories (which Arctic explorers have long been recommending for stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed the yak, a draft animal, with cattle, getting beef even finer-grained than steer's meat. Present Canadian experiments are upon a "yakattalo," a tri-brid that may prove juiciest...
Such are the larger aspects of the Chinese customs muddle. It is expected that, for the present, the conference will steer clear of as many of them as possible. Observers agree that the immediate situation in China is too unstable to warrant proximate withdrawal of British tariff-supervision. Presumably as many minor points of friction as possible will be cleared up at the conference; and it is thought probable that the tariff rate will be raised from 5% to 7½% in order to increase the revenue to a point where China can abolish some of her internal taxes...