Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within a few months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country. In that case Soviet Russia would be ready to step into their place, posing as the friend of China. The course of Chinese diplomacy at the coming conference will lie between Scylla and Charybdis...
...effort to explore the top of the world in heavier-than-air craft.* In other radio messages to the National Geographic Society (his sponsor), Commander MacMillan detailed his plans for retreating down the Greenland coast in advance of the winter ice-floes already making in Smith Sound. At every step, the Far North had rebuked the trespassers with unusually inclement weather. In July, ice-floes delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until...
...deposit" of the ratifications, both treaties became effective. One relates to Chinese customs; the other, to "The Principles and Policies to Be Followed in Matters Concerning China." A step was made whereby, at conferences soon to be called, the Powers concerned will be able to hear and take heed of the voice of China...
...this country because of the close connection now existing between the London and Manhattan money markets, and between the Bank of England and the New York Federal Reserve Bank. It is argued that the latter bank will scarcely raise its rate in the near future, since such a step might cause the British institution promptly to reverse itself and raise its rate once more?thus occasioning new trouble for the Baldwin Government and British fiscal operations...
...PLEASURE BUYERS-Arthur Somers Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...