Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graf Zeppelin" was primarily an experimental ship. Commanded by Germany's grand old man of the air, Dr. Hugo Eckener, the "Hindenburg'e" regular trips will be between Germany and South America; but this voyage to Lakehurst, if successful, will make air history. For it marks the first hesitant step of a process that air-minded men dream of--the establishment of a regular transatlantic airline. The great dirigible should not be greeted as just one more example of the insolence of an overweening nation, but as the medium through which progress takes another step forward...
Harvard is being neither "drastic" nor "stupid" in taking this step. It is not as if great efforts at reaching an understanding had not been made. The failure of the conference with Yale, and the statement of National Collegiate Athletic Association, not only vindicate Harvard's action but make any reconsideration of the case under present circumstances impossible...
Today then, as Kitty walks slowly down the aisle of his classroom, with his worn copy of "The Winter's Tale", defending Leontes from the charge of being a "bitter, jealous tyrant", the last of Harvard's great lights will be dimmed and Professor Kittredge will step into Harvard history...
...unfortunate one for Physics concentrators, in the meanwhile; only if this policy succeeds in bringing together a group of men who are good teachers and good research men, will it be in any way justified. In any case, it will be most disastrous for the field if a definite step is not taken at once to raise the teaching level...
...next step on the program to clear up traffic problem around the Square will be to tighten up on parking regulations along Massachusetts avenue in front of Wigglesworth Hall. Double line parkers--even "just for a minute"--and haphazard parkers who leave certain portions of their cars projecting into the way of traffic, will be summoned to court without being given any second chance...