Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, in 1909, Lawrence Lowell set his face steadfastly against all this. While still allowing a considerable freedom of election, so that education remained adequately comprehensive, his method required the student to group and organize the major portion of his studies within a single field. It was a step toward the famous "honour schools" of the English universities, in which the student concentrates upon the classics, history, English language and literature, or any one of half a dozen general subjects. A similar step already had been taken in many American universities...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, who felt that the students would be greatly benefited by an opportunity to see, at first hand, how an advertising agency undertakes the work of launching an advertising campaign. A. B. Hall, General Manager of the Greenleaf Company, led the class step by step through the various stages in the preparation of an advertising campaign--the investigation of market conditions, the selection of media to reach the type of purchasers it is desired to interest, the formulation of selling arguments, the preparation of layouts, copy and illustrations, and the merchandising of the advertising...
...lifting of the Allied blockade on Russia marks the first step in a constructive policy of removing the "Red Terror" both from that country itself and from the rest of the world. While there are some who denounce this move of the Supreme Council as "peace by surrender" and as a "feather in the cap of Lenine and Trotsky," the probable results of the policy must be studied before it is thus condemned...
...incurred by the idle patter of "parlor bolshevists." But in times of reaction from liberalism such as the present there are still greater dangers in applying the epithet "parlor bolshevist" to anyone who dares assert an independent opinion. If this nation and the whole world do not watch their step carefully, the next decade will usher in a period of suppression on such a scale that in comparison the age of Metternich will appear as a mad whirl of anarchy...
...Japan is much concerned with the problems of the world, and favors the adoption of the Leage of Nations as a possible step towards the ultimate elimination of war Anything which can be done that will help to bring permanent peace is worth while. That the Shantung question should have arisen, Japan regrets, but it was with difficulty that we won Shantung from Germany, and the prevailing opinion is that we should keep it. We must be repaid in some measure for the sacrifices that we have made...