Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Side Step. When the hoary question of compensating Hungarians in Transylvania for lands expropriated by Rumania (TIME, Sept. 26) came up again, last week, the Council passed a resolution informing the disputants that, while the good offices of the League are still at their disposal, it is the opinion of the Council, after five years of investigation, that the matter should now be settled by direct negotiations between Rumania and Hungary. When informed of this decision by telephone, Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary barked back over the long distance wire, "The League once more has proved its utter impotency...
Freshman Week this fall will be shortened one day of the customary five devoted in the past to formal and informal meetings for the members of the incoming class, it was announced at University Hall yesterday. No reason was given for the step other than that the former period of five days was longer than the first year preliminary engagements required...
...Month Club, that tells you the book you have to read every month, to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month." Thus spake Lorelei, in admiration for what she knew to be a Step Upward, and a long, free, women's stride toward Higher Things. Her simple admiration would be even greater had she known that the movement, toward selectivity in contemporary literature had only just begun. In 1927 there was no Crime Club...
...metre run--Miller and George Morin, B. A. A.: 400-metre run--F. A. Burns, B. A. A.: 800-metre run--Martin B. A. A.: 1500-metre run--R. A. Dalrymple and H. C. Cutbill, B. A. A.: 500-metre run--William Simons, Dorchester Club; Hop, Step and Jump AI Rogan, B. A. A.: Hammer throw--Edward Flanagan, B. A. A.: Discus throw--Pratt: Javelin throw--A. W. Sager...
...advantages of this plan are enumerated by its author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present...