Word: steps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more intensely interesting region than Picardy for the three months before the present offensive could scarcely be found. For that entire period we saw day by day, step by step, the preparations made on a greater scale than ever before. Our headquarters were some 20 miles from Amiens, on the national highway leading to Peronne, directly behind the sector of lines where the French troops have brought the heaviest pressure to bear...
...take for now the price of both is merely a trifle more than the regular price of either publication. Since the present boards have been able to overcome the feeling of antagonism which has existed for decades, it seems only night to hope that this is the first step towards further, harmony and cooperation in the more important literary relationship...
Another important step has been the re-establishment of the short summer course at Milford, Conn., for this will be of decided value in making the Yale school better known. The short course is intended for young men who are thinking of forestry as a profession, but who are doubtful as to its requirements and their fitness for the work; for those interested in the care of woodlots; and for teachers of nature study, botany, and agriculture...
College men are needed in international politics, as well as in politics at home, and the International Polity Clubs are a step in the right direction. Their slogan is not the cry of "Peace at any price." Peace with honor arrived at through a saner kind of international relationship is what they most desire. It is only through broad-minded and intelligent discussion, such as the present conference offers, that a full knowledge of our foreign policies can be gained...
...This is an intolerable situation, which exists nowhere else in the civilized world and which it is out of the question to think will permanently continue in the United States. The first step away from this difficulty was taken by Columbia some twenty years ago when it introduced the so called combined course into the professional schools, permitting the saving of at least one year. This combined-course idea rapidly spread throughout the country and is now adopted by most of the leading universities, barring a few conservative institutions in the East. A slight modification of this system was later...