Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profoundly believe that the first great step towards safeguarding this nation from being drawn into war is to use whatever influence it can, compatible with the traditional policy of our country of noninvolvement, so as to make less likely the outbreak of a major...
...accepting what is reputed to be the world's greatest private Italian collection, in the name of the U. S. people, President Roosevelt thanked Storeman Kress for setting an example that is "a decided step in the realization of the true purpose of the National Gallery." No new thing to self-effacing Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their...
...more cylinders, some 50% more horsepower, about the same dimensions. Secret-of-success: through trial & error engineers had learned to cool high-powered air-cooled engines more efficiently, thus were able to clump more cylinders around a single crankshaft. Better cooling also made it possible to increase cylinder pressures, step up speed of piston strokes...
Promising deliveries in several weeks, International announced that it was producing 75 of the new tractors daily, could step up production...
Headmaster Clarke said he had made up his mind to this revolutionary step several years ago, when he learned that Repton boys, to escape townee snickers when they left the school grounds, enveloped themselves in mackintoshes even on the hottest days. Repton's new uniform, still to be designed, will be "made up so as to allow greater freedom and less to divide the Reptonian from his fellow countrymen...