Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plenty to think about. Under his feet is Pennsylvania. Under his feet is practically all the hard coal in the U. S. If it is in his power to take some decisive step, it is also in his power to determine the future of the entire anthracite industry in the U. S., and in doing that to affect powerfully for good or ill the prosperity of his state...
...second great step is to put all politicians on the water wagon. The personnel of Congress is overwhelmingly dry, both in practice and in precept. But I am in favor of a vigorous policy from the White House down that will break every bottle in official America and send unpatriotic and dangerous politicians to the scrap heap...
Little Hans was not a manly lad; he had, for instance, a terrible fear of the great geese that were driven in flocks through the streets of Odense, marching with a military step, their eyes glistening like buttons, and their red bills pointing forward in a row. When he beheld them he would run and hide behind the black pig, which was his friend...
...healing has become so much the mode in Britain that last week the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed the Bishop of Southwark to preside over a council of six celebrated doctors and six clergymen to advise the Church "on all matters related to spiritual healing and healing missions." In this step some people thought they perceived a formal recognition of spiritual healing. Medicos, clerics, were asked for their opinions...
...crash in prices can be and usually is attributed to almost any event whether it has any close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord, evidently feared a similar rise in the rate of the New York Reserve Bank and threw overboard their motor shares in haste...