Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk is only beginning, its seriousness can be gauged by the fact that Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia were all week in hectic telegraphic communication with the Quai d'Orsay, and the Polish Foreign Minister made a special trip to Paris to influence the French Government against taking any step to terminate the existing treaty of alliance. Meantime, France has apparently to choose between having Britain for an ally or maintaining her treaty relations with the Central European Powers...
...this step is seen the removal of another support from the old stand of World War prejudices...
...Floor Leader to succeed Mr. Longworth (as Mr. Longworth had promised if he won), a little more business was transacted and in less than an hour and a half the caucus was over. Mr. Longworth-"Nick," wearer of spats, genial, just a bit aristocratic -had advanced his career another step. To be sure, the probability is that, as Speaker, he will have less power than in his former post. The days of Thomas B. Reed, when the Speaker was "Czar," are gone forever. Reed, the sarcastic, the quick-witted, with his New England drawl, and his 200 pounds of avoirdupois...
...some of the University's lecture rooms that were open to the general public. At the age of 15, he was apprenticed to a saddlemaker and, while thus employed in learning a trade, joined an organization of youths known as the Young Socialists. This was perhaps the first step of any importance in his life...
...There is here, we think, a principle rather than academic question at stake. We should like to see the three universities mentioned at the opening of this comment work toward this end with the new ruling as to lower salaries as the first step toward it." Yale Alumni Weekly...