Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase in the number of concentrators in Engineering Sciences, which has continued over a period of five years is due largely to the transfer of undergraduates from the Engineering School to Harvard as a step in the director of making the Engineering School a strictly graduate school...
Last week Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, whom President Wilson also placed upon the bench in 1916, unceremoniously celebrated his 78th birthday. Though the oldest member of the court, his health is still good, his step quick, his mind vital. As the best anti-corporation lawyer of Wilson's day, Brandeis was for Labor, for Reform, for Social Improvement in a passionate way. He still is. Yet he is unconvinced of the divine nature of any man and accepts President Roosevelt's New Deal with certain reservations which his friends are sure will make startling news this winter...
...Unemployment insurance will be in the program....This part of social insurance should be a cooperative Federal-State undertaking. It is important that the Federal Government encourage States which are ready to take this progressive step. It is no less important that all unemployment insurance reserve funds be held and invested by the Federal Government so that the use of these funds as a means of stabilization may be maintained in central management....For the administration of insurance benefits the States are the most logical units. At this stage while unemployment insurance is still untried in this country...there...
...Step on the gas!" was Sergeant Honda's only thought in his panic. The Imperial motorcade got so far ahead of schedule that at Nishi Technical College, Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out of gear, the Son of Heaven's program for the day became so disarranged that at one point he had to wait 20 minutes-a sacrilege unspeakable...
...command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...