Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There have been radical changes in prison conditions during the last century", said Warden Hendry of the Massachusetts State Prison in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "No longer are prisoners bolted to walls in their cells, made to walk lock step with a ball and chain around their foot, or fed on bread and water and forced to live in a dungeon. The life of a prison inmate today corresponds to average everyday life with of course necessary restrictions...
Henry Ford: "An interviewer asked me about my presidential ambitions. Said I: ' I wouldn't step as far as from here to that rug to become King of England...
...average sporting scrivener should step out of the press box at the Polo Grounds and exchange his ordinary raiment for a Giant baseball uniform there might be a riot. Certainly the sight of a writer's calves in the Old-Glory barber-pole sox of the Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the American Construction Council, refuses to be categoried with Hays and Landis as a "Tzar." He apparently seeks to make his position one of moral influence rather than of responsible authority. The first step, in either case, is to bring together into a coherent whole the 1,001 varieties of building trades...
Most significant has been the step taken by the Board of Governors of the American Construction Council. Headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and representing all factors in the construction industry, this national organization has recommended that all new construction be deferred for several months, that bankers restrict speculative building loans till fall, that wide publicity be given to the rising costs of construction and that all building by the government be halted over summer. The Federal Reserve Board in Washington has announced itself in agreement with the Construction Board's advice to curtail loans, while Chambers of Commerce all over...