Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again, it was picked up at Netcong, N. J., flashed back to Manhattan. One quarter-second after President Gifford said, "Hello," Vice President Miller heard him, answered over a reverse circuit. Mindful that this first round-the-world conversation should be nobly phrased, President Gifford began: "This is another step in the conquest of time and space. . . ." Soon both men lapsed into shop talk...
...watch it a shilling for the privilege. The Maryland Hunt Cup race, started in 1894 when two rival fox hunts decided to see which had the best horses, is for a silver cup which Captain Kettle would have retired last week if he had been a step faster. The race is ridden by amateurs, watched for nothing, by 20,000 of the people who make upper Virginia and Maryland the best fox hunting country in the U. S. Last week's crowd was the biggest and gayest since...
...make another mistake like 1929 to 1932. One more and the fat is in the fire. The next step will be abolition of the profit system-and page Mr. Stalin...
...result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
Although it must be candidly admitted that it is a joke to try to regiment sociability, the removal of the exclusive tutors' table is a long and bold step in the direction of attaining the desirable intimate relationship between instructor and student...