Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the necessity that makes the chosen few those who secure tickels within and hour of their release, opportunity is now extended even to the tardy and the unlucky. On Christmas Eve Professor Copeland will step to the microphone and speak to an audience which is bound only by interplanetary space. It may not be true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn...
...princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening pas;--figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by while mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...opinion, the best guarantee of security for all people is imme- diate and complete disarmament. . . . The disarmament commission [of the League of Nations] is merely decorative and has not advanced disarmament a single step. . . . Should our plans for complete World disarmament seem too complex, at first, that is because complete disarmament has always been treated as a forbidden subject and has never been thoroughly dealt with...
...until it meets again, in March. Litvinov has to be content with this, and seems not unhappy amid such pleasant surroundings. He is receiving scores of congratulatory messages. One is from Mrs. Henry Villard,* Chairman of the Manhattan Women's Peace Society. Cables she: "Thrilled by Russia's forward step toward world peace, the only one possible if we would really have true peace between nations...
...annex this country is only the first step in the grandiloquent scheme of Polish nationalists to build a gigantic state stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of course this could not be accomplished without another war, which even the most sanguinary believe cannot happen for at least ten years. Yet that the Poles have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary...