Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered the Army as volunteer in the Twelfth Pennsyl vania Infantry. At the end of a three months' enlistment, he became a Captain in the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. During the war, he rose step by step to a colonelcy. Peace came. He slipped back to be a Sec ond Lieutenant and once again began his steady rise. The Spanish War gave him a sudden boost; and he rose to be a Brigadier General; then a Major General of Volunteers...
...compare, in the endurance of hardships, great hazards and magnificent feats, with the circumstances which must attend an attempt on Everest. Yet when Signor Barolo returned he gave out these remarks to the press: "I went carefully and slowly, testing the ground with my stick at each step and I managed, at last, to get down the steep sides of the crater. My progress was also hampered by evil-smelling volcanic gases, which came up wherever there was a small fissure in the ground. At the bottom of the crater, I walked for a few yards quite easily upon what...
...editors-in-chief and executive editors. . . . This group . . . adopted a set of 'Canons of Journalism' prepared by Mr. H. J. Wright, at that time Editor of the New York Globe. Excellent! But-without wishing to prejudge the utility of such a body, the creation of which is surely a step in the right direction, it is significant that membership belongs not to the man, but to the job! ... It is ironic and significant that the author of this code is no longer in a position to enforce its practice and that several who took prominent parts in the proceedings...
...matter. This expected development will be greatly complicated by the action of the obscure 25-share partner in the business. At recent market prices, Dr. Klein's stock is worth about $100; yet his claim for a receivership involves assets valued at $120,000,000. This apparent step toward throwing a monkey-wrench into the Company's machinery should provoke a lively tilt in the Courts when the question of a permanent receivership is taken...
When General Pershing steps down from his post as Chief of Staff, Major General John Leonard Hines will step up. But it will be a short step. General Hines is already Deputy Chief of Staff, and acts as the military head of the Army during General Pershing's absences from Washington. His temporary job merely becomes permanent. Incidentally, the change will bring to the highest post in the Army a War-made officer, whose rise in rank was extremely rapid. In 1917, General Hines was a major in the regular Army. He had been graduated almost 26 years earlier...