Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initial step in this direction was taken during the first week of March, by the athletic committees of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton when it was agreed to raise the general price of tickets for "Big Three" football games to $5 for all except members of the universities concerned, for whom it was reduced...
...suggestion that we might achieve a broader culture and a better sense of the relatedness of things by studying in terms of situations rather than subjects is convincing in the abstract. But the moment we attempt to step from the abstract into the concrete and undertake to visualize such a teaching policy in operation in a university, a thousand difficulties arise. Few have ventured to condescend to details respecting this suggestion as far as college instruction goes. It has usually been left in that twilight zone of the abstract where we keep ideas that would be good if they could...
...city in one part of the country. What hope then is there for all the other cities in all the other parts? Though one can boast of local morals and another of local anesthetics. South Bend alone can boast of twins joined together in infancy, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and see with your own eyes. So an era of provincial inferiority complexes awaits those cities who see no future chance to pave their prosperity with the concertos reality of such physical phenomena...
...right . . . keep that line and walk up. . . . Bring up that 12 horse. . . . Back, four. . . . Step back, I tell you. . . . All right, Jimmy, bring him up. . . . The Salmon horse . . . Eddy, get that 12 horse by the bridle and pull him up. . . .All right, hold it . . . hold it ... spread out there...
Americans have been growing anxious, however, almost clamorous, to step into the Louvre, when they make the grand tour, and see at least one canvas on which the paint has been applied by fingers born in America. Last week the Louvre announced that Americans have only to go into the Salle des Etats and see -But what matters it if this famed Whistler hangs in the Louvre or not? In nearly every 100% American home a reproduction of it already hangs. The lady of the house turns to the admiring guest saying: "That lovely one on the left...