Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America is planning to step in and referee the matter. A loan of a billion and a half dollars to help the struggling mark get on sol'd land is being contemplated. But France pooh-poohs our offers of assistance; she knows that Germany doesn't need it. Only a general German reversal of attitude will clear the skies. Premier Cuno, an honorable man apparently, has foresworn the policy of his predecessors. Said he a week ago: "There is no central force within economic circles strong enough to take the leadership out of the hands of the government under...
From the point of view of the Caucasian race, Oriental nations always do things wrong-way-round. They are always out of step in the march of events, and usually a little behind; but lately Japan has been ahead of time-again from the point of view of the Occident. She has gone through the militaristic stage, and now seems anxious to atone for past sins by an unselfishness that is so far in advance of European politics that it makes her appear out of step again. Not content with being one of the first to agree to the four...
...present day public affairs and practice in debating, there has been formed, it was announced last night, a Harvard Debating has no connection with the Harvard Union, consists of two opposing wings, which will dispute at fortnightly or monthly periods on different subjects of current interest. The first definite step at organization was taken on Wednesday night when the Conservative Club was formed, while the opposing wing was constituted as the Progressive Club at a meeting last night. It is planned that these two Clubs will be compact and independent in themselves and that the debates will be carried...
...offers athletics and competitions as foretastes of the keener "struggle for existence," and courses of study to equip the intellect not with facts but with methods of securing and using them. In this way it can turn out a well grounded and well proportioned man ready for the next step toward the future; provided "Barkis is willing...
This is a step without precedent--a recognition of the value of other elements in college life, besides that of the curriculum. With the knowledge that the deans and other officials of the college no longer ignore the "outside activity" (dances and bridge tournaments not included), the undergraduate is much more apt to let loose some of the "latent idealism" which...