Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first step upward is the new nineteen million dollar canal which connects the Mississippi with the Gulf and opens the inner harbor and some hundred thousand vacant aces of adjacent harbor land to ocean going vessels. Curiously enough the project originated more than a hundred years ago in the epidemic of artificial waterways which produced the Eric canal and several others less famous in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Then as now there was heed of increased facilities; then because the railroads were not yet in existence--now because the increased costs, embargoes and the like, have brown them into...
...most important results of the second annual meeting of the Harvard-Princeton Fine Arts Club, which closed yesterday, was the decision to arrange an interchange of faculty members of the two universities. The first step toward this exchange will be made next fall when Professor C. R. Post '04 will go to Princeton, while Professor C. R. Morey will give a course on Byzantine Art here...
...Greist Woodlands come to Yale not only without restrictions, but also in themselves offering unlimited possibilities for future development. A golf course, the largest college links in the country, is the first step, and further plans point to possible ski jumps, toboggan slides, and an outdoor rink on the lake. Even with all of these created there will be room for a "Faculty colony" such as the "Faculty development plan" at Princeton...
...have lived and labored in the South so long since my graduation from Harvard College, over twenty years ago, that, despite the newspapers, I had fondly cherished the illusion that, step by step with the unquestionable growth of liberal sentiment in the Southern States as a whole, New England was enriching rather than impoverishing her heritage...
...possibility of a tunnel under the Bering Strait has been brought up again. In speaking before a branch of the American Asiatic Association, Julian Arnold, Commercial Attache of the United States to Peking, advocated the construction of this connecting link between America and Asia,--a step which would make possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family...