Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oral work in elementary classes first, and then later in the intermediate courses. Raimundo Lido, professor of Romance Languages and Literature, agrees that more oral work is vitally needed in elementary teaching. "The epitome of reading is speaking the language; from there you must go on to the ultimate step in facile writing...
...head of a mine pit is simultaneously company commander of the militia and head of a row of rooms in the living quarters." Meanwhile, the miners' wives and teen-age children have been put to work running 40 new "industrial enterprises," including a cement factory. Logical next step at Yangchuan (and already in operation in some Red Chinese factories) is the "Saturday-night system," under which a married woman worker lives in a factory dormitory, is alone with her husband only on the odd Saturday night when she has the use of a dormitory room all to herself...
...Inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies, which on attainment of their independence constituted themselves into a confederacy which ultimately developed into the United States of America," the two nations, though separated by the French Ivory Coast. would join in a United Republic. "As a first step, we have agreed to adopt a union flag and to develop between our two governments the closest contacts . . . especially in the fields of defense and foreign and economic affairs...
...Papadimitriou put together all his information from ancient sources and began to probe the ground at Vravron, now called Vraona, and inhabited by Albanian-speaking villagers, who grow tomatoes and cucumbers. Soon he found fragments of carved marble, which led him step by step toward the buried ruins of Diana's shrine. First to be found was the ceremonial "tomb" of Diana. Last June the overturned but well-preserved columns of the temple itself came to light. This month the diggers unearthed a magnificent stoa (portico) which can easily be restored. Many of the carved stones were in remarkably...
After years of trial-and-error taxation, the nation's 1,272 life insurance companies moved a step closer toward accepting a permanent formula for totting up-and increasing-their federal tax bill. The companies (in which 109 million Americans have policies with a face value exceeding $458 billion) last year paid $292 million, based on a stopgap law that levied the regular 52% corporate income tax on up to 15% of their net investment income. Industry executives who jammed the committee room for hearings last week heard Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark.), chairman of the House Ways...