Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round of shadow boxing at one quarter speed. They try out all their punches, ducks and feints against imaginary opponents. Following this is a round of shadow boxing in which the footwork is given most of the attention. This is done at full speed to enable them to step around lightly and not become flat-footed in their style...
With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing...
...action of Argentina, as Senor Pueyrredon of that country explained, does not mean necessarily a complete separation from the League. From the withdrawal of one country's delegation from the Assembly to the "stampede" of Senator Borah's prediction is a long step. Moreover the significance of the action means much less when we remember that this is the League's first meeting. That everything should go smoothly among so many peoples of the wide world, that the machinery of the League should move without the slightest friction at its first trial was not to be expected...
...being made up for this season than for any past year. The candidates will be expected to make five-minute speeches on either side of the question: "Resolved: That the Federal Government should own and operate the coal mines of the United States." The constitutionality of such a step is to be granted, and will not, therefore, enter into the question. All undergraduates, including Freshmen, are eligible for the debating team...
...Union. English muffins, strawberry jam, toast and tea may be ordered and served in any part of the building, and may be charged on the term bill. The arrangements will be the same as at the Harvard Clubs of Boston, New York and other cities. These teas mark another step in the reorganization of the Union with the view of making it an undergraduate Harvard Club...