Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of the "Advocate" have taken the only step open to them under the circumstances. That they should suffer from a puritannical trait that has been the curse of American art since its earliest days is patently unjust. The zealous and alert Mr. Leahy has accomplished another in a series of travesties of law enforcement...
Only 17 miles from Aduwa lies the holy city of Aksum, whose capture was the next step in the Italian advance. For days Italian forces had this mecca of the Coptic Christians practically surrounded. Scouting planes made hourly flights over it, could see no trace of Ethiopian troops. Still no attack was made, for in the centre of small Aksum stands a little crenelated stone church, holiest in the empire. There Ethiopia's earliest kings are buried. In it was supposed to lie the true Ark of the Covenant. Before such a Christian shrine Italy dared risk no accident...
...opportunity. Christmas vacation would afford sufficient time to do a temporary piece of reconstruction on the ancient building. This would entail widening of the corridors at the expense of the size of the classrooms, the construction of broader stairways, and an additional entrance to the building. It is a step the University should have taken long ago in the interest of general safety and can be delayed no longer...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...
...bring about all the changes necessary to produce a stable Chinese Government under a responsible leader with whom Japan can deal. . . . We believe that eventually China's 400.000,000 people will arise and overthrow the present selfish regime. . . . However if a crisis arises, Japan is fully prepared to step in and make the necessary sacrifices to establish a stable regime. . . . Only two solutions are possible-either the Nanking Government and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek must immediately institute fundamental changes of policy, or the Five Northern Provinces must be entirely separated from the Nanking Government, establishing an independent administration...