Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week fateful to the future of European Democracy could handily be visualized in London terms. It was just as if No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley should put himself up as a candidate at a by-election and be taken so seriously that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin should step down to fight him man to man as the opposing candidate. Further, it was as if King George VI should spunkily issue denials of rumors that he was pro-Fascist; and as if the Archbishop of Canterbury should come crashing through at the last moment with an appeal plunging...
...Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
Like all good reporters, Royce Brier went thoroughly over his story's ground. Boy in Blue was three years writing. took Author Brier step by step over the Tennessee battlefields he tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause...
Discovery of a new bed of ancient fossils in southern Brazil has proved a great step forward for the expedition of Llewellyn I. Price and Theodore E. White of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...curricular program for study of United States history carries with it more significance than first meets the eye. With one of its aims being to destroy the belief that, in order to acquire a broad education, one must attend a college or university, the plan is indeed a decisive step. Aside from this purpose, the plan is intended to provide a ground of common knowledge on which all who participate will be able to meet and discuss the subject intelligently. Advancing on its first five year plan, the experiment will have every opportunity to be tested both by graduates...