Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never take a backward step...
...arrival in the hamlets was received much as the children greet circuses in our small towns. After much gaping staring and laughter the chiefs most of them nice old fellows would step forward to greet us. An exchange of presents was the usual token of friendship. They are extremely fond of tobacco down there in fact so much so that it is used as currency the value being determined by the size of the heads. We carried a tremendous supply with us for trading purposes...
...factional advantage, and to hold it consistently loyal to the general welfare. Proportional Representation makes the ballot of greater value and interest to the voter, practically every vote helping to elect somebody in every council or legislature. It does away with the primary, not by taking a backward step, but by going forward to something better and more efficient...
...There the tenderfoot doesn't step out daintily for breakfast. He has a lean, hungry look on his face after eating a half hour, and wants to know where the rest of the animal is after devouring a couple of pounds of beefsteak...
...extraordinarily far-sighted and generous policy toward China on the part of Great Britain has been announced by Sir Austen Chamberlain. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and may be regarded as a decided step forward in the attitude of the Western world toward the East England has gone more than half-way in its effort to reach a settlement with China, considering not the inconvenience of the moment, but relations with China for the next hundred years." All the points stated by China have been accepted, extra-territoriality, the tariff and the matter of the concessions. Such a degree of conciliatory...