Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...step is hailed as of great significance in promoting friendly relations between the United States and China. President J. Leighton Stuart, of Yenching University, here on a visit, predicts that the organization in general supervision of the work, called the Harvard Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, will become "a strong factor in cementing the friendship between the United States and China, which is of such critical importance in the political future of the whole Pacific basin. The Chinese themselves have recently been awakened to a new interest in their national culture. A better understanding of this culture by the outside...
...similar innovation had been made the week before by the Rev. Dr. Peter Ainslie, pastor of the Christian Temple in Baltimore. The essential purpose which prompted Dr. Tucker and Dr. Ainslie to such action was well expressed by the former: "The first step in a unity of Christian peoples is for the Protestant sects to get together. There can be no real discussion of a union as long as Rome is forced to deal with numerous sects, all holding divergent beliefs...
Youthful Germans will learn astronomy from planetaria installed in eleven cities. Craning their necks from seats in the very centre of these imitation universes, they will watch their professors speed up eternity, compel sun, moon and stars to step lively, giving their classes in a few minutes demonstrations of changes that take hundreds of centuries. The gyroscopic motion of the earth (26,000 years) will be reduced to four minutes. The earth's swing around the sun (one year) will be crowded into 7.3 seconds or slowed down to seven minutes to make it easier...
Plans for the 1929 University football season were a step nearer completion yesterday when it was announced by the H. A. A. that Harvard would meet the University of Florida on the gridiron, November 2, 1929, at Cambridge. This will be the first encounter between the two elevens since 1922, when Harvard was victorious...
...certain that the "college man" exists. Too much is written about him to make it possible that he does not. But he is too elusive a person to be easily recognized in his complete state. Now at least a step has been taken toward his identification, but if he is inclined to come forth at last from his long seclusion it is to be feared that upon perceiving that he has cast ahead of him such a shadow as this, he may bolt back into hiding like the ground hog to wait for a more favorable opportunity...