Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenged Teller on the technicalities. "A nuclear-weapons-test ban is one of the easiest to inspect," he said, and seismographic evidence proved it. Inspecting nuclear production "is most difficult.'' Yet the U.S.'s package plan tied the one to the other and made "the last step" the prerequisite for "the first step." Orear quoted widespread opinion that the whole package plan might be "a gimmick to prevent agreement." A wholly workable international inspection system, he said, could be set up "tomorrow...
...appointment of Professor Henry C. Darby as a visiting professor of Geography for the Spring term of 1959 is a long-needed step in the right direction. However, the appointment of only one Professor of Geography will not suffice; it is distressing to note that Harvard is the only major American or European university without a geography department...
...Minister of the First Church in Cambridge, Unitarian, Wilburn B. Miller, expressed pleasure at the Corporation's decision, calling it a "step in the right direction." He said that he would be happy if non-Christian services other than funerals and weddings could be held in Memorial Church...
...inborn dramatic flair; nevertheless training in teaching would help even the reticent to improve their ability to impart knowledge. At present, teaching fellowships give the future instructor valuable experience. Making them available to more graduate students by shortening them from four to two years would be one valuable step in helping doctoral candidates develop teaching ability...
...like. "My guess is that they probably don't get up for breakfast and are apt to cut a lot of classes. These people become tremendously apathetic immediately before they leave, more so than they ever will be again in their lives. Their decision to leave is the fist step into a more vigorous, healthy life and they feel better the instant they make it. I myself, view these people as a Charlie Chaplain at the end of a movie walking down the road with a stick over his shoulder...