Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remember those books? In the First Reader you began with "the dog ran," and learned to read words of two and three letters. In the high school, with the Fifth and Sixth Readers, students read Hamlet and Childe Harold. Step by step they mounted the ladder. Each reader was well illustrated and all were equipped with lessons in punctuation, inflection, modulation, and with glossaries and biographical notes...
...first step into the fall season many of the Houses are having informal dinners and gatherings this week for the purpose of welcoming the new Sophomore members to the House. At Leverett House next week the Master and Staff will meet the younger men in an informal evening gathering to which all new and old House members will be invited. Winthrop House is having an informal dinner next week on Thursday at which the master and the tutors will officially welcome the new men to the House. Although it will be a regular weekly House dinner, there will...
Said Mrs. Upton Sinclair, wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of California: "I don't think that just because a man is nominated or elected to office his family should step into the spotlight...
Federal regulation of the stockmarket begins Oct. 1. Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission announced last week that there would be no "upheaval." He was proceeding cautiously, seeking practical advice at every step. It was announced that virtually all issues listed on the Stock Exchange would be available for trading after Oct. 1, thus scotching reports that companies like General Motors and Allied Chemical preferred delisting. But Wall Street knew...
...seems quite certain that the men from New England who have enrolled in Professor Sprague's new, series of lectures expect to hear what they want to hear--that the government has taken the wrong step in its controlled inflation. But at the same time there can be no doubt but that the words of one so close to the affairs of that hectic week that followed on President Roosevelt's inauguration will be of much value to businessmen everywhere. He knows the inside story. Whether he will tell it is another thing...