Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before the Fleet ends its 17-day visit to New York, all hands will be called on the quarter-deck of the Fleet's flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn out in their gold braid and cocked hats. Admiral Sellers will step forward, read an order appointing him commandant at Annapolis. Then lean, bearded Joseph Mason Reeves will read an order making him master of all U. S. warships. "Bull"' Reeves has been an outstanding naval figure since that autumn afternoon in 1894 when, injured, he saved the day for Annapolis...
...serious trouble.* No matter how gingerly they handled Japan, nobody in Geneva was afraid of El Salvador. Sternly they talked of booting the recalcitrant little republic out of the League. Foreign Minister Angel Araujo ruffled his hackles to defend El Salvador's honor. "I do not believe the step taken by El Salvador will injure anybody in the world. ... In recognizing Manchukuo El Salvador acted as a free, sovereign and independent nation, which does not need any lessons in conduct except from its own laws and international obligations." The moral satisfaction of membership in the League of Nations costs...
...small Galician town, but Papa Mayer worked away at his grocery, traded and saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer-Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius went to England. Arrived in the U. S. at last, Mayer and faithful Son Pincus sought...
...study will be linked to the House Plan, since the tutorial work will be carried on by House fellows, who will have nothing to do with the making out or grading of examinations at all. This will be done by committees from the various graduate faculties. This seems a step in the direction of divorcement of tutorial work from all ordinary teaching, which will be viewed with interest by all educators, especially if it goes to the extent of attempting to divorce tutorial teaching from graduate teaching and research. Woodrow Wilson intended for his preceptors to be merely teachers...
Advt.--Students desiring to dance but who think they cannot learn, may be assured they CAN, by my method, and CAN in 4 lessons learn the two-step, schottische and waltz. Prepare now for the closing fetes...