Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...converting the unfinished top floor of Dillon Field House into two or three bunk rooms so as to take care of at least a few of the visiting aggregations. To do this would require only a small financial outlay. Although only a modest beginning, it would be a definite step in the right direction, a constructive move in bringing Harvard hospitality towards visiting athletes up to the level of its Ivy League colleagues...
...object to this un-American, Fascistic, unDemocratic, un D.A.R. step which Bourbon pettifoggery is cramming down the Freshman throats. We urge students not to submit; we ask one universal groan to rise spontaneously in the next lecture. That there were only two A's at midyears in this year's History I class may cut into future Phi Beta Kappites, but it is no reason to justify swastikas in the Yard. Committee to View Liberal Democracy M. B. Roger '69, Chairman...
...Sober Woodrow Wilson liked to put on a record in the Oval Room after dinner and practice a jig step, envied minstrel dancers because they "took on no more at their hearts than they could kick off at their heels." Another diversion of the 28th President of the U. S.: after long White House receptions he "loved to get upstairs and twist his face about. . . . He could make his ears move and elongate his face or broaden it in a perfectly ludicrous...
...march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy, and then, he intimated, step in to knock them both out. This passage was widely quoted by those who believe Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin may somehow, someday get together...
...class is politically conscious and expectant over the outcome. It comes when many Yardling groups have a vested interest in the current election, and are consequently unwilling to forego a chance to vote. It comes with such lightning rapidity that every freshman will hesitate to take such a mighty step with such great dispatch...