Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape being shot down in the streets, that when he first surrendered he was allowed to take into his cell a pistol and a machine gun, that he could raise his $42,500 bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging no dynamite, plays pinochle, smiles blandly, has nothing...
...Newark, N. J., the orchestra played Carmen. A bull, goaded by the lances of the picador, careened madly about the ring. With graceful, measured step the matador advanced, rose on tiptoe, plunged his sword into the bull's breast, squarely between the shoulders. A bell rang. That bell was inside the bull. That bull was mechanical, controlled by an electric switchboard. Sportsmen were having their bi-weekly fun in a building on the banks of the grimy Passaic River...
...announcement made public today of the erection for use next fall of 12 to 16 tennis courts and 6 or 7 aeries of playing fields opposite Soldiers Field is a first step promising well for future activity in the same direction. Final action is, of course, subject to the approval of the Corporation, but that, in this case, may fairly be assumed a fore gone conclusion. Indoor athletic facilities are, however, in even greater need of improvement and extension. May the energy of Mr. Bingham, for instance, materialize in the near future the often rumored but at present highly intangible...
...Committee approved the tentative plan to develop tennis courts and playing fields on the vacant land on North Harvard Street south of the Business School. This step, however, is subject to the approval of the Corporation with regard to drawing the necessary money from the athletic funds. The plan involves the building of between 12 and 16 tennis courts, and the grading and seeding of six or seven acres of athletic fields. The rapid development of intramural sports and the need of the Business School for athletic fields have given rise to the necessity of increasing the University's athletic...
...praise for thus squarely putting up to his own Nationalist friends the issue of joining the Government at the price of supporting the Republic. This was an act of genuine statesmanship, of greatness, yet it must be remembered that many another German statesman prepared the ground for the bold step which the Herr President took, and forced the Nationalists to take last week...