Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hungary has in this taken a step worthy of emulation. Prompt and scientific action on the part of the detective service can lead only to equally efficient action by the courts, so that the escape of offenders may be expected to become a thing of the past. At a time when American methods and agents are being subjected to intense scrutiny, it might be well, if only to bolster public confidence, to follow the lead of Europe in dealing with and reducing the extraneous part of the population...
...John and Mary worry and work; then in a mobbed street a truck crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave him, he gets a sandwichman job; the work fibre tightens, and John Sims. Everyman, is once more running with the pack, happy...
...question of whether or not the Government should stay in the shipping business and continue in that (so far) ineffective way to try to build up the U. S. merchant marine. Last week the question remained as derelict as ever, but the U. S. Shipping Board took a definite step which apparently vexed no one very much. It sold the U. S. entirely out of the shipping business on the Pacific Coast...
Four Sons parades the emotions of Bavarian Mother Bernle who sees three sons goose step to war and death. The fourth and youngest had sailed before the War to the U. S., but he too eventually holds a bayonet. Evil appears in the person of a Prussian, monocled and stooped, mannered and sneering. But Director John Ford sees to it that the boy is safely returned to New York and mother...
When the date of the Creation was known, and history could be traced step by step along a well-charted and limited route for six thousand years, blind faith had definite pegs to which it could attach itself; now when professors carelessly juggle millions of years in a forty-minute lecture, and pass from electrons to infinity in a moment's time, only to discover in a few years that they are wrong, is it any wonder that faith has for many become a dead letter...