Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Thomas Mann had thus finished the arduous task of getting clear with his ancestry, he started immediately on the next step in his autobiographic way of dealing with problems...
...Saklatvala and many another in the usual continental fashion?on both cheeks. Then he launched into a farewell speech, mentioning Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill by name, and calling them the statesmen chiefly responsible for "this unwarranted, insane step" by the Cabinet...
...there is still another reason, and one more cogent still. Mussolini holds sway in Rome, and Mussolini is an expansionist. He has already made Albania an Italian province in all but name, and he has cast longing eyes southward. Should England step out in the interests of the rights of nationality, Mussolini could best ride the Mediterranean as easily as he has the Adriatic and plant the Italian colors over the forts of Alexandria and perhaps worse yet over the Red Sea towns beside the Suez. The mere conception of such a possibility would be enough to send Winston Churchill...
...time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held it to his chosen tempo for the rest of the opera. Sequel: A riled audience reserved applause for minor singers. An indignant...
...plan adopted yesterday by the student council at Amherst for the limitation of the activities which may be undertaken by, or thrust upon, any one student in the college, is one more step along the road that many American colleges seem to be travelling. It has been many years now since the constant; grinding strain of extra-curricular activities first began to be commented upon to the disparagement of the colleges which allowed them to rob their students of every moment of their academic leisure. It has been at least as many years since the whole round of these activities...