Word: steps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...step in the direction which it now appears every endowed educational institution must ultimately take, has been announced by Yale University in the form of an undergraduate tuition increase. Effective next fall the fee will be four hundred dollars a year, an increase of fifty dollars. A significant item in the bare notice of this step as reported in the press, is the fact that "additional appropriations will be made to prevent the increase from adding to the financial burdens of the self-supporting students...
...Allow us to congratulate ourselves with you for having achieved this important step, which will stabilize more decidely than ever Italy's economic life and finances. We of New York and our house in London are extremely happy at having been able to collaborate with you to such an end. We renew for you our best wishes...
...further hardship to labor during the process." 5) President Coolidge has repeatedly suggested setting up a federal board to arbitrate in coal emergencies, but- 6) "As emergency is a chronic state in coal," perhaps such a board had better regulate as well as arbitrate. 7) Perhaps the most advisable step of all would be for the operators to appoint an umpire or high commissioner, as in the cinema and baseball industries. Said Secretary Davis: "If ever an industry needed a Tsar, coal is that industry." 8) "The man selected would have to be one of ability, courage, decision and heart...
Said Lawyer Clarence Darrow: "I believe it is the next step . . . . The main thing to be taken into consideration by such a board of correction suggested by Governor Smith would be: can the defendant be saved, be returned to society...
...policy of condemning poor horses and replacing them by mounts given to the Harvard R. O. T. C., by interested alumni, the Crimson Polo Squad is taking the first step toward a drive for the intercollegiate championship...