Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automatic pistol from her magazine and firing two peremptory shots at Judge Johnson. The courtroom banged with noise. Splinters flew from the woodwork and a blackboard behind Judge Johnson, whose reflexes made him huddle down into his chair so suddenly that the next moment he tumbled down the bench step, though as yet unhurt...
...legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless in appearance that the Allies let it go through: "My engagement to Miss...
...conditions of the students. The process of renovation has been thorough. New hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard. To the students living in these halls, the improvement is decidedly welcome. For "the old order changeth, yielding place to new," and where 1927 sat amidst the reeking traditions of its predecessors, 1928 will enjoy the comforts...
With the establishment in Galiatin Hall of a branch of the Harvard Cooperative Society, another step has been taken in the effort to make a self-sufficient unit out of the Business School plant...
...Chase '28. Captain H. W. Burns '28 and W. B. Jones '28 are back to fill two outfield berths, and the pitching staff is almost intact, with J. N. Barbee '28, F. B. Cutts '28, Willard Howard '28, and E. R. Ketchum '29 ready to step on the mound...