Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...OBJECT TO YOUR CALLING A EUROPEAN WAR A WORLD WAR. CONSIDER THIS FIRST STEP TOWARD A REAL WORLD WAR. LET'S CONFINE IT TO EUROPEAN NATIONS...
...first-line combat planes in the first months of fighting is expected by the U. S. Air Corps if ever its new armada flies to war.* Such appalling losses put a premium upon a vast reserve of pilots. Last week the non-military Civil Aeronautics Authority took a long step to increase that reserve: it certified 220 U. S. colleges and universities for participation in its pilot-training program, prepared to name still more to share $5,675,000 voted by Congress for schooling 11,000 new fliers this year...
Next morning the couple drove (Duchess at the wheel) to Major Metcalfe's grey stone house in Ashdown Forest, about 40 miles south of London. In the car were two paperbound books: Winston Churchill's Step by Step, Dr. Ivan Lajos' Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...
Last week news from Europe took on its greatest change. Correspondents who step by step and hour by hour had reported the inevitably developing crisis, now found their stories crazily whirling and blurring. If the last weeks of peace had the solemnity of tragedy, the first days of World War II were like one of those old-fashioned movies in which people jerked their arms, exaggerated motions, and in which automobile wheels turned backwards while automobiles raced ahead...
Lenin during the Civil War, but Lenin and Trotsky together were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by step on the Socialist program, sick, knowing his closest henchmen to be politically imprudent, like Trotsky, or unscrupulous, like Stalin. After his death it took Stalin just two years to make himself impregnable...