Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second School represented at the Conference desires to burst through the bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...
...their former masters, last week, because Sierra Leone is so impoverished and undeveloped that many a free man cannot earn a slave's adequate "board and keep." Commenting, the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Brig. Gen. Sir Joseph Byrne, said: "Although the freeing of the slaves is a step of great importance, it marks what is only a beginning toward the ultimate ideal of abolition of unpaid communal labor...
...mile of open water above the Newell Boat House and below the Weld Boat Club, five shells of the University flotilla ventured onto the Charles for a brief row yesterday. Men in touch with Harvard rowing asserted that it was the first time in history that such a step had been taken at this time of year...
...Widener authorities, fortunately, have not taken the sometimes trivial criticism levelled at them in the spirit of "Go on, we're down, step all over us!" No matter how busy they have been, they have always seemed willing to take on one more burden. They have welcomed criticism, shortcomings of which have been brought to light only under the acid test of the Reading Period...
Only the undergraduates and the college officers in charge can correct the situation. The great body of Harvard graduates throughout the country is waiting for them to take the first step that will reestablish Harvard in the public esteem to which she is so well entitled, but which no college can afford to neglect. Yours very truly, Theodore S. Kenyon...