Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monsieur le President," said the suite member, "step in, and I will present you to the Queen of Holland...
...train in; and if it is not enough, we cannot afford longer," replied the Britishers. "Why have you no coach?" asked pressmen. "For the same reason: we cannot afford one," said they. At Cambridge, Mass., blond David, Lord Burghley, heard a pistol pop, took a step, two, three, sailed over a white hurdle, repeated this bounding, this stepping for 120 yards, winning the first event for England...
...officials are, for this reason, looking ahead to the coming autumn season with considerable anxiety. Thus far it has not been so much of a feat to keep sterling at its gold par with the dollar. But the real test of Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill's bold step in resuming gold payments this spring (TIME, May 11, COMMONWEALTH) will come this fall. Hitherto, Britain has not been forcd by her assumption of the full gold standard to export much gold -in fact, if anything, she has imported the yellow metal on balance from other countries...
...event that, in the autumn, the strain of large gold shipments to the U. S. appears imminent, the first probable step of the British to retain their gold will be to raise the rate of redis-ount at the Bank of England. This step tends to draw investment funds from the U. S. to England-a money movement which offsets British payments for purchases of our goods, and thus obviates the decline in sterling exchange and the need of extensive gold shipments...
...second step was made known last week. Secretary Mellon announced a new plan of internal enforcement organization-a plan drawn up by Mr. Andrews and to be undertaken with the "unqualified approval" of President Coolidge and himself. It provides...