Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been tried before with disappointing results. Under the able leadership of the Athletic Director and M. A. Cheek '26 the difficulties heretofore apparently insurmountable were overcome. But class eleven football,, excellent as it is, affects not over 80 or 90 men at the most. It was distinctly a step in the right direction but it was not yet "athletics for all". We were impressed, but we awaited with interest further developments...
...about to placate the insurgents, cajole them, humor them. To a breakfast of buckwheat cakes and sausage at the White House he invited Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Laborite of the Senate, who usually votes with the insurgents. Then too, the President, after a false step, gave in to Senators Nye and Frazier of North Dakota on the question of patronage rewards. And who are these Republican insurgents to whom the President bows with gracious gestures, with whom Democrats and Republicans alike would be friends in perilous political moments? In number, they are six in the present Senate...
...Secretariat. As M. Briand and Sir Austen went figuratively arm in arm to Geneva, last week, and as the Council assembled, it was reported to have been momentously determined that the Allied Military Commission of Control (over Germany) will soon be replaced by a supervisory League Commission, a great step in soothing German amour propre...
...mere quipster, General Gomez took the unprecedented step last week of ordering the showing of free motion pictures at theatres throughout the city of Maracaibo. Loafers swarmed in. Then the doors were closed, locked. One by one all the men thus trapped were examined. Able-bodied idlers were arrested, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a term of work at road building...
...second and less joyous climax comes a little later, at the end of a long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard...