Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came in the fall of 1933, soon after President Conant took office, when, without any horn-blowing or grinding of machinery, Lowes, who had been Deputy Treasurer since 1929, was made Financial Assistant to the President. Only a few of the higher-ups realized the sweeping changes which this step foretold...
While international organizations and tribunals debate the problems of world peace and security, a more visible step toward that goal will be reached next Friday when President Conant welcomes 160 members of the Italian student group visiting American colleges and universities, to Harvard. Their reception, tour of the buildings, and the track meet with the athletes of this country will be a step towards establishment of a close bond of friendship and understanding between the two nations...
Italy's Minister of Corporations was no less busy last week than the Foreign Minister and the Minister of War (see above). The loudly-heralded but still intangible Corporative State advanced another step toward actuality when Minister of Corporations Benito Mussolini announced the make-up of the newest member that will compose the ideal Fascist State: the Corporation of Agriculture...
...manifesting itself by its works. "Gene" is the name by which geneticists agreed to call the mysterious heredity-transmitting agents strung along the length of the chromosome. As minute streaks in body cells, the chromosomes were visible under the microscope; their component parts were not. Last week a long step toward visual study of genes seemed to have been taken by Dr. Calvin Blackman Bridges of the Carnegie Institution, working at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
...song she likes to sing on the old chapel step...