Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initial step of the campaign has been successful. The real crisis will not be passed, however, until it is proved beyond all question that those who have signed up for insurance are going to pay promptly their first instalment, and in future years, their annual premiums. No matter how much insurance is taken out, failure to pay the premium obligations during the next 25 years will bring disaster to the entire project...
...schools of the East have closely geared themselves to collegiate requirements and methods; but this is certainly not true of the majority of public high schools, and since a large proportion of the entering classes does come from public rather than private preparatory schools, it is imperative that some step he taken which will tend to coordinate the functions of the high school and the college. There are then two alternatives for the preparatory schools: either they will assume the initiative and send men to college adequately fitted to undertake the first year of college study, or the college will...
Yesterday the Student Council met. Apparently it did nothing else, and traditions are safe. Actually traditions are tottering, for if it did not take the radical step of doing anything it made the startling departure of deciding to do something...
...SHOW-OFF?A naturalistic, satirical study of the sort of bumptious young man who continually finds they're all out of step...
Albert B. Fall: "Arrived at El Paso, Texas, I went to the home of my son-in-law, a collector of customs, where Mrs. Fall was lying ill. Reporters remarked that I 'walked with a firm step...