Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another sensible and long-needed step has been taken by Dr. Bock and his department in the complete renovation of Freshman Hygiene. The old system with its petrified and stealthy advice to young Ulysses always savored much more of Beatrice Fairfax than Louis Pasteur, and its banishment will leave an imperceptibly small gap in Harvard scholastics...
...stages in a man's training. From grammar to high or preparatory school is in itself a jump; that from high school to college even more pronounced, and with harmful effects on the adjacent years in both; while that from college to law school is at present literally a step from one world to another. A development in education that promises to be interesting will be the gradual fusing of these three phases into one another...
...bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest at Balmoral in Scotland. In Athens Premier Tsaldaris took the hint and a long step forward toward a return to a Monarchy...
Genuinely concerned, Editor Hartman hoped that Mr. Denman-first man of affairs publicly to take a step which many a man of affairs has predicted would be taken-"may find a satisfactory church home in some other denomination...
Horace H. Rackham, a small Detroit lawyer, owed his entire fortune to one lucky step, taken when he was 45. From his front porch in 1903 he could hear a gasoline engine sputtering in the backyard of his neighbor, Henry Ford. Hesitantly Lawyer Rackham mortgaged his property, invested $5,000 in the new Ford Motor Co. In 1919, after receiving $4,000,000 in dividends, he sold out to Henry & Edsel Ford for $12,500,000. Taken aback by his fortune, Lawyer Rackham did his best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career...