Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss Curry's and Fusionist La Guardia's apprehension that their contest might become three-cornered, dominated by a Flynn-Farley-(Roosevelt) entry. In such a contest Mr. McKee would doubtless draw from the La Guardia support, perhaps open the way for Mayor O'Brien to step back into office...
...cases of severe disciplinary action a student's tutor, and his House senior tutor and Master are almost always consulted anyway: the resident dean, therefore, shorn of disciplinary power, would be on a par with the resident tutor so far as his relations with House residents. This step would constitute a further decentralization, and would make more healthy contact between University Hall and the undergraduates as they live in the House plan...
...Step Toward Employment...
...Walker also showed that the recent treasury order, permitting gold to be sold abroad at the world price, which was heralded as a boon to the mining companies, was also a step toward unemployment relief in that it increased by fifty percent the earnings of the small prospector and panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this...
...validity of this thesis Dr. McGraw let Johnny's twin develop like a traditional baby. Twin Jimmy cannot skate, refuses to climb down from any stand even two feet high. When in any predicament, he shows his sense of insecurity by turning to older people for help. Next step in Dr. Tilney's study of learning processes is to phonograph every sound a child makes from birth until it begins to talk coherently. That speech study waits on some interested philanthropist providing a few thousand dollars. A merry account of doughty Johnny and timid Jimmy Dr. McGraw took...