Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Incredible hand-to-hand encounters followed, in which men threw themselves on top of each other in utter disregard of danger, perfectly contemptuous of death, bombing, slashing, stabbing and firing; forcing themselves forward step by step into the labyrinthine maze of underground passages in the old fort; climbing over the bodies of slain and wounded, both sides, howling and crying in a scarcely human...
...Times fired Managing Editor William G. Foster to take on Pulitzer Prize Winner Julian Harris (TIME, Aug. 19, 1935). Hired by the Free Press, Editor Foster built up an able staff, last spring brought out a Sunday edition selling for 5?. Last week, the Free Press took the last step to maturity, began appearing weekdays (except Saturday) and Sunday...
This system was also probably the first step toward the introduction of the percentage method of marking into America. Under Quincy, the perfect recitation or examination scored eight points. The marks for all the recitations and examinations of a student were added together each year, and if at the end of the Senior year he had a sufficient point "aggregate" he graduated...
...First step was to make a clay model of the mutilated head exactly as it was found. Next, with the assistance of police surgeons, Sculptor Guinzburg began to patch up the missing features, combining them in six different models. Haverstraw's Who was modeled: i) with the right eye closed, the left eye open; 2) squinting; 3) with a closed jaw and a hard & firm mouth; 4) with a bulbous nose; 5) with a mustache. Model No. 6, brought to New York last week, was a composite of all the others. New York City police were impressed...
...Walter Thompson Advertising Agency from a relatively small station to follow in the footsteps of Comedian Eddie Cantor as nation-wide salesman for Chase & Sanborn's coffee. This season's most unusual big program may be Chase & Sanborn's "Good Will Court" in which downhearted folk step up to a microphone, tell their personal difficulties to municipal judges who pass out good advice. Appeal of this program, which shrewd J. Walter Thompson begins for its coffee client next fortnight, is that everyone likes to hear other people's troubles...