Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vare, a contractor, heartily admired Candidate Hoover, an engineer; that Secretary Mellon, a cautious financier, wanted to explore every contingency before shifting from the Coolidge investment to the Hoover; that Vare, a blunt creature, saw no sense in waiting longer; that Mellon, alive to subtleties, dreaded taking the final step before...
Shortly some 50,000 troops of "Christian" Feng Yu-hsiang surrounded Peking, which was still occupied by the 6,000 "model" troops, with luckless General Pao encamped outside the walls. The next presumptuous step of Feng's troops was to take General Pao into custody and disarm...
...blind you can't play games in which balls are used. You can't box, play hockey or lacrosse, pole vault, or fence. But you can do the broad jump, the hop, step, and jump, the standing high jump, and the shot put. You can also run races, though for that there has to be a special equipment and because this equipment is hard to fix up for long distances blind men usually only run sprints...
...growing by degrees more reckless and ending in desperation. All along there is a series also of excuses causing the edge of the conscience to become gradually dulled. The end was not willed from the beginning; there was no deliberate choice between honesty and a life of crime. One step led to another as with Dr. Jekyll, and till near the close the true state of affairs was not appreciated. That this is true is evident from the fact that the defaulter sometimes continues to hold a respected position, or even to be an active church member. Such a contradiction...
...growing by degrees more reckless and ending in desperation. All along there is a series also of excuses causing the edge of the conscience to become gradually dulled. The end was not willed from the beginning; there was no deliberate choice between honesty and a life of crime. One step led to another as with Dr. Jekyll, and till near the close the true state of affairs was not appreciated. That this is true is evident from the fact that the defaulter sometimes continues to hold a respected position, or even to be an active church member. Such a contradiction...