Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Spence five days a week, eight months of the year for more than eight years. She was a small rugged person with a quick step and a determined eye. I never saw her shocked but once-that was at the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. She did not call for smelling salts. She called the school together and announced neither she nor any institution she was connected with was neutral under the circumstances. WINTHROP B. PALMER (Mrs. Carleton Palmer) New York City
...Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind the coffin of George V. Mr. Stoebs wore the only fedora hat in the procession and around his neck on a gold chain mysteriously dangled what appeared to be a Rumanian religious cross...
...into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation and advertising. In January 1935 it was bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing the Mexican Year Book Publishing Co. He saw his chance to step up in the world when the spectacular publishing ventures of Cornelius (Farewell to Fifth Avenue) Vanderbilt Jr. collapsed; talked the receivers into letting him publish Vanderbilt's Los Angeles tabloid. Publisher Boddy made good his sales talk by building the Illustrated Daily News into one of the Coast...
...will be used as an Owens-Illinois research laboratory. The building is made up of 80,000 glass blocks, has 39 rooms. Because of the building material, no windows are necessary, and in solving the problem of the windowless structure, Owens-Illinois claimed that it had taken a long step forward in making air-conditioning practical. The glass house also contains another important Owens-Illinois product: spun glass, or glass wool, woven into thick mats and used as insulator of heat and sound. It is likely to be a long time before many people live in glass houses, but glass...
Last week Douglas again jumped a long step forward. Swamped with enough business to keep it working at full capacity for 18 months, it announced it would immediately double the size of its factory...