Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad caboose, not the last coach of the circus. And if he did catch the last coach why did he risk his precious life crawling over the top of the coaches in a vain effort to reach the engineer when it would have been much easier to step into the cupola of the caboose and arouse the train crew, and have them stop the train...
...known as Bridge Whist. That afternoon, as far as anyone can accurately tell, was the birthday of a card game which spans the civilized world, which later developed and fastened itself more firmly on the white man's leisure as Auction Bridge; and now promises to take another step and monopolize card tables as Contract Bridge...
Such lay questions were answered by Dr. Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, psychologist at Temple University, Philadelphia, who set Psychologist Aveling right on a minor point besides carrying the Aveling analysis of laughter one illuminating step further. The minor point was: whereas Dr. Aveling supposed hyenas and humans to be the only laughing animals, Dr. Bolton had observed laughter in cows, calves, horses, monkeys; "and the most obvious laughter in the animal kingdom is that...
...cleverest as well as one of the most vituperative politicians alive, whereas most af the Free State's political talent is young and relatively inexperienced. With almost certain defeat staring Mr. Cosgrave in the face, the Governor General would certainly point out the advantages of taking the decisive step of forcing the parties into a new contest, now that the country is believed to be well aroused to the gravity of the issues at stake...
...until last March was the sarcophagus opened. Despite its elaborate concealment, the magnificent array around it and the obvious fact that thieves had never penetrated to it, the sarcophagus was empty. Cheops, having had one experience with thieves -at Dahshur, had evidently carried his ruse of concealment one step beyond extreme caution and hidden his mother's mummy still elsewhere...