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Word: steps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cross-section as conceived by President Conant, are ever to come to life the university must let down the bars to the men who prefer to take only a few meals in the dining halls. An equitable breakfast rate would be a long step forward. Some such consideration is needed to make the houses financially attractive to those who eat outside, and a concession of this sort might pave the way for a successful solution of the problem within the cross-section ideal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HOME IN THE HOUSES | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

Tossing "Friday the 13th" superstitions to the wind, Freshmen will step to the music of Mal Hallett and his orchestra in the early spring dance at the Union tonight. Hoping to pique the idly curious, the dance committee has rumored a surprise in store for the terpsichoreans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN WILL DANCE TO HALLETT TONIGHT | 3/13/1936 | See Source »

...intercollegiate schedules and limiting outside games, the value and enjoyment of the minor sports are materially reduced. Substantial cost reductions will be very difficult to achieve, unless the hitherto high standard of coaching is done away with and men of Jessor ability employed. For these reasons the new step is a stop-gap-measure, which, if allowed to become permanent, will result in the impaired utility of the newly-supported sports, since it is very difficult to see how "substantial savings" can be made, unless the minor sports are revived on a lessened-efficiency basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TEMPORARY MEASURE | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

Married. Helen Lee Eames Doherty, step-daughter of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty; and Theodore Wessel, Danish sportsman; at the home of President Juan Bautista Sacasa in Managua, Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...years later he is not only still alive but master of South African diamond mines. With the help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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