Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clerk Chaffee took one step forward, bowed from the waist to Vice President Curtis, read from a document...
President Hoover established oil conservation as a major policy of his administration when he ordered an end to permits for drilling on Government land, and to renewals of lapsed oil leases (TIME, March 25). This official step encouraged the oil industry, as represented by the American Petroleum Institute, to believe that it had a friend in the White House who would smile upon its own efforts to hold down production. Confronted with an enormous output and low prices, operators agreed among themselves to plug their production for 1929 at the 1928 level. They asked the Federal Oil Conservation Board...
...Mexico's religious "problem" moved another step nearer solution last week with the Vatican's appointment of Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores as Apostolic Delegate to negotiate with President Portes Gil (TIME...
...obscure group of Harvard men. Most Chemists have a habit of keeping pretty close to their laboratories and mingling with the immutable laws of nature rather than the variabilities of human social life. Any organization, however specialized, which brings these men together with others in their field is a step to helping them to a broader point of view. There are of course regular national and local Chemical societies, but an association purely of Harvard men has an advantage in that it supplies a common meeting ground exclusively of field interest...
...better proof of the fact that this "editorial" is entirely out of step with the opinion of the average Harvard boy can be had than by listening to their comments on the Crimson article: they simply dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books, and is trying to show how terribly "intellectual" he has become through the reading...