Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority, and are able to cite the authority of the Reparations Commission, they have proceeded to enter the magic circle. At the same time, significantly, President Harding has noted on the Senate recommendation and ordered the American troops home. Great Britain seems on the point of taking the same step...
...Morgan's objects that the college, as well as its undergraduates, shall be self supporting, in the largest degree compatible with quality in service rendered. Success in this aim, which has recently been called "the next great adventure in education" would be a promising step toward solution of the problem of educational endowment...
...South Church, or the old State House, or to the remoter regions of Copp's Hill and the Paul Revere district, the heart of Revolutionary Boston. Many hurry along Tremont a tombstone is inscribed "P. Funel" for Peter Faneuil, founder of the Hall. And how many as they step off the escalator, stop to notice the Park Street Church, staunch religious edifice whose basement once housed the store of a retail liquor-dealer, now metamorphosed into a tea-room...
...States by the development of National Parks, Monuments and Forests is well-known, and the idea is constantly spreading. The Director of the National Park Service has proposed the creation of several new reservations and constructive work in the parks already existing is going on steadily. The most recent step forward is the passage of a law in Vermont putting a protecting arm around certain wild flowers as the rest of the country is already protecting game. Vermont thus constitutes itself a sort of state wide sanctuary for the wild flowers which are fast disappearing elsewhere under the uprooting hand...
...others, for in fourteen colleges, including Princeton and Williams, courses of much the same type have already been given and proved satisfactory. The Association is basing its report rather on experimental cases than on a novel suggestion of its own, and it is hoping to make easier a difficult step in each student's progress--the transition from preparatory school to college. It is bearing in mind the case of the student who passed his entrance examinations with honor marks, and then received four E's and a D during his first term in college; as well as the more...