Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...position on the New York School Board, Mr. Burlingham said, is no longer the first step in a political career, as it was formerly. For many years appointments have been made by the mayor, and the office of commissioner has been without remuneration. A standard of efficiency higher than that maintained in other departments has been the result, although the present board, with forty-six members, is far too large. Its size is due to one of those compromises which seem to be prerequisite to any forward legislation...
...uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good step forward...
...been laid upon form and the correction of individual faults, each man, however, being allowed as much freedom as possible in batting in his own way. Attention was also given to teaching the men to hit hard and squarely without swinging and to correcting a general tendency to step away from the plate. The men have also practiced bunting both straight and curved balls...
...speaker was introduced by B. S. Kimura, Gr. Div., president of the Japan Club, who gave a brief history of his country's foreign policy. Mr. Howes showed that the acquisition of Manchuria by Russia is merely one step in a general eastern advance of the Cossacks, and that the war is therefore a defensive one on the part of Japan. As such, he said, it should arouse the interest of liberty-loving people...
...widest point is 50 feet. The floor is so made that from or steel nails, are done away with wooden pegs being used instead. Andover Academy has a larger gymnasium than our own. The time has come I belive, when Harvard herself should take in this matter a step consistent with her general progress. GRADUATE...