Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanatory Ode All persons who aspire to climb The social stair, be warned in time, And saved from treading unaware Upon a step that isn't there. Each proud and unfamiliar name May prove to be a source of shame, If in pronouncing it you make, From lack of knowledge, a mistake. Great Britain absolutely teems With men and women surnamed Wemyss, And everywhere the tyro strolls There lurks an unsuspected Knollys. He's certain to be greeted glumly Who gives four syllables to Cholmondcley, Or by his ignorance disarms The good intentions of a Glamis...
Explained the Ford Motor Co.: "We are reducing prices now because we feel that such a step is the best contribution that can be made to assure a continuation of good business throughout the country...
...announcement that the Graduate School of Education is to cooperate with the University Film Foundation in distributing educational films throughout the world marks another step in bringing the motion picture into the field of intellectual endeavor. Since the organization of the Foundation two years ago various branches of the university as well as Harvard Clubs throughout the country have gained much both from the films taken of undergraduate life and the more specifically educational pictures that have been developed along different lines...
...prospect might well seem ominous to us who love the old times and associations, were it not for the great step which has just been taken in the Housing Plan. Here has come a new element which promises to preserve the College--not only preserve it-but vivify and strengthen...
...based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should not be considered bound until her first pregnancy...