Word: steps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enthusiasts were jubilant. Bold Senator Borah was on their side. Wets, too, were pleased. "To get the Prohibition issue out into the open," they said, "is the first step toward solving...
...educated at Wellington College and spent his early years in the army, holding many frilled, gold-laced positions. He entered politics with little enthusiasm and no ambition. Appointed Postmaster General in 1903, he applied his ponderous brain to the telephone system and subsequently nationalized it, the wisdom of which step has been disputed ever since...
...worker. The research worker first makes a fundamental discovery; then he proceeds to investigate it in all its aspects and attempts to explain it in its relations with other known phenomena. Next the inventor sees some way of turning this discovery to some practical account-and this is the step ordinarily called invention...
...seldom write a line aid vastly in the dissemination of Harvard football news, can scarcely be forgotten. Sitting, nominally at least, at the top of the hierarchy of the H.A.A. publicity department, is S. deJ. Osborne '26, while in college manager of both the football and track team. A step below him stand George Baker '25 and A.M. Blackburn '28, acting publicity direc...
...worked it for its most lavish production. She has exploited her vast knowledge of the English vocabulary to a staggering degree. In so doing the length of verse is often subjected to the cause of an extra-size word or two, thus throwing the reader completely out of step. Her lines are vigorous, robust, even Englishly athletic...