Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stealing a three-day weekend. President Roosevelt skipped off to Hyde Park, found his mother in bed with a "slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...
...expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small-sized rubber form and insert it into the puckered throat. The rubber upon expanding stretches the throat slightly. Soon as the throat accommodates itself to the stretch. Dr. Jackson repeats the process by inserting a core of larger diameter. "The treatment," said he last week, "is highly...
...biggest maker of paperboard shipping containers and cartons in the U. S. Last year Container earned $1,238,000-its best showing since 1927, which was the first full year of the company's life. What President Paepcke will discuss with his stockholders this week is a longer step forward for Container than his cordial postcard. He proposes to issue 200,000 shares of new $50 par preferred stock. More than one-half of this issue will be sold at once, the rest later. With the proceeds President Paepcke will enter a field new to his company. Container will...
...unbearable to thing that victory should be snatched away by such a minor tribulation when the rank and file are ready and eager to step into the fray. Lack of leadership cannot be brooked, especially when there are thousands in the party coffers just waiting to be spent for some worthwhile cause, such as college propaganda and the dissemination of useful knowledge among the undergraduates of America. Perhaps a flying squad could be rushed to Cambridge from New York in order to organize and lead some semblance of form and purpose to this potentially worthwhile group; publicity could be issued...
Next day his theory was completely verified. Because of the loose suspension of the horizontal beams of the building, the seismograph record of the night before indicated cataclysmic upheavals at every step he had taken. Apparently the instrument had been particularly disturbed in the course of his descent from the top floor...