Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avowed intention to apply the resultant increase in funds "solely to maintenance and development of general athletic facilities and not to increasing the budgets of intercollegiate athletic teams." The idea of "athletics for all" has recently come noticeably to the fore in theory; here is a definite step toward putting this theory into practice...
...public speaking, indifference to the opportunities of the Debating Union is hardly to be contemplated. Its renaissance tonight, after a lapse of two and one half months, is a hopeful event, the more so because the announcement was accompanied by specific dates for two future meetings This is a step which looks toward focussing an already interested student attention on a project of broad possibilities...
...level. Curiously enough, one of the porters who reached the high level carrying a 40-pound burden the same as the men. Only six of the entire native force were able to climb up from the next stage, at the 24,000 foot level. When finally only the last step remained to be made much time was spent in waiting for a day on which the wind seemed low enough to allow Irvine and Mallory to make the run for their goal. The day came, as clear as crystal and the snow so rigid that it crackled underfoot. Very early...
...through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game. Lenglen evened the score. Wills took another...
...Jones, the Crimson jumper. Probably the most spectacular per- formance, with the exception of Kane's classic in the relay, was Watters' race in the 1000. The University middle distance star was almost too sick to walk just before the race. He overcame a poor start, and fought every step of the way to shoulder ahead of a Cornell runner on the last turn and finish behind the winning Haggerty...