Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaks them. The automobilist needs to know what the law requires of him. The farmer who is selling fruit or vegetables must learn how his apples must be graded. The young man who is to be married must find out what licenses he needs. Birth, death and every step between is regulated by law, and the lawyer is the man whose duty it is to know what the law is, and to stand ready whenever difficulties arise to advise his fellow-citizens as to their rights and their duties...
...thought this would occur, Senator Ladd said: "It will come by a general breaking down of the railroads. This will prove to the country the impossibility of satisfactory or efficient management under private ownership, and, in self-defence the Public will demand that the Government step in. After that it will be only a question of time before the Government either owns or controls all the railroads, under some system to be worked out later...
...before the war, the faculty were working on the problem of the development of student initiative and responsibility. Their student organizations, Y. M. C. A., Athletic Association and literary societies were genuine student organizations, managed by the students and not by the faculty, with faculty advisory committees. The last step had been the successful inauguration of Self--Government, which many had thought impossible...
Humor benighted in a wilderness of words. Philosophy as ancient sit is petty a more frequent use of capitals than custom (aristocratic custom, but custom nevertheless) allows--that is the Proletarian who for the first time wipes the dust from his shoes and steps into the prior. Nor does he seem a quite at home, naturally enough. Fingers that are more used to the aigrette, than to the pen do not response easily to the new demands; his humor somehow lacks that airy step of one who is well-fed and content with the universe. Yet now that this creature...
...insurance policy such as the "Tribune" contributor describes. There are doubtless thousands of families who would welcome such a scheme were it offered by any reliable company. But since sentiment on such matters is necessarily unorganized, and so inarticulate, it is the insurance agents who must take the first step by establishing a policy of this kind...