Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Putting to good use some of the war-built training camps, the War Department is undertaking to improve American men mentality, morally, and physically. The soldiering element is introduced rather for the benefits of its discipline than to provide substantial military knowledge. The camps are not a step in the direction of the old Continental service period; no promise or suggestion of further military service is made...
...Student Council's action last night marks the first step toward putting into practice the plan which marks an entirely new departure in the method of selecting the Student Council. Those in back of it have claimed that it will greatly improve the quality and efficiency of that body, but members of the Council were willing to admit last night that the success of their plan depended in great measure on the result of the experiment this spring--in particular the interest displayed in the election itself...
Only 2,000 were allowed to goose-step into Halle for the unveiling ceremony; some 70,000 remained, outside the town and made a great noise from afar. It was the greatest monarchial demonstration seen in Germany since...
Moreover, in France there does not appear to be a Ramsey MacDonald to step immediately to the foreground of ministers so admirable suited for their parts as was the case in England; M. Berriot, it is true, commands the loyalty of the great French moderate group who really made possible the downfall of M. Poincare; but that he will be able to bring the more Radical gentlemen into line is still a matter of conjecture. And his apparent unpreparedness for success does not indicate any great confidence in his power...
...necessary is apparently a broadcasting of an appeal to make use of these facilities. The arguments against illiteracy are sufficiently convincing if only they are placed emphatically before illiterates. A shifting of some of the present fervid discussion to the problem of beginnings in education is a necessary first step toward a campaign against the disgrace of illiteracy...