Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sterne has advanced a step further and has shown that if the sun's temperature were 1000 million degrees or more, all matter existing on it would be, not explosive, but quite passive. In this case transmutations of the elements would be in equilibrium rather than tending to go to completion. Dr. Sterne believes that according for 1 (followed by 11 ciphers) years. This would involve compression or cooling or both, and may be compared to what goes on in a gasoline engine when the temperature is sufficiently high to permit equilibrium taking place...
...next step is cancellation of the European debt. For when a country refuses to accept gold as the final discharge of a commercial obligation, free trade and cancellation become sole alternatives. The choice between cancellation and free trade is politically no choice at all; and the outcome, even if no more than the destruction of another meaningless political fetish, the tariff, will have more than earned the professors their salt...
Comment: A step nearer perfection by a magazine which was already practically adjacent...
When President Roosevelt found that Ambassador Dodd's first and second calls had produced not even a reply he took what Germans last week regarded as the "unprecedented" step of summoning to the White House owlish German Ambassador Dr. Hans Luther. On his departure bald Dr. Luther pinked hotly when he discovered that correspondents knew what the President had called him on the carpet about...
Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...