Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity for the capable, and a pitfall for the many, emerges the certainty that the advocated segregation is the next step in progressive education...
...wall of fire." From this threatening situation the country emerged, by Tyler's skillful diplomacy, a world power, and without any bloodshed whatever. The factors in this result were the great Treaty of Washington (1842), negotiated, as Daniel Web ster, Tyler's Secretary of State, declared, "from step to step and from day to day under the President's own immediate supervision and di rection," the virtual protectorate established over the Hawaiian Islands, the annexation of Texas which made possible the acquisition of California and New Mexico, and the opening of the Orient through the first treaty...
...grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand, Mrs. Knapp said her step-daughter had earned the money and knew all about how it was spent. The stepdaughter, a penurious school-teacher about the same...
...Callaghan, pointed out to the jury that Mrs. Knapp had lied to save herself. After the verdict came in, he deferred sentence until September because physicians said Mrs. Knapp was near a nervous breakdown. Deferred also were several other indictments against Mrs. Knapp on charges similar to the step-daughter graft...
...Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour. Mr. Nicholson retorted that he had just been in Manhattan, which seemed to be doing well on Daylight Saving Time, and averred that the cinema industry was not going to step in, if he could help it, to say that Indianapolitans should not have an extra hour in their public parks...