Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
...piece itself would be difficult to spoil. Kaufman and Hart's lampooning of Alexander Woolcott and a few of his friends is full of full-step jokes, slapstick, and broad humor. The cast that Directors Miller and Seaver have put around Woolley is adequate in all parts, really capable in only a few; but it played last night to the best of its abilities, muffed no lines, and kept the play going when The Man was offstage...
...lack of it." The report commends GE instructors who announce a list of key problems to be thought over before the examination. Although this method would not work in all fields, some courses could make use of it as soon as this June as a first step toward a more constructive system of studying and grading...
...pride of Belleville, Ark., wearing a huge cud of tobacco in one cheek, forgot at times that it was only an exhibition game. "When I step on the field," Sain once said, "I'm not making a social call. I'm a professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched...
Last summer's discovery doesn't clear up the 4,000-year old puzzle, but it has been hailed by one of the country's top corn men as an important step toward its solution...