Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also a forward step in the cinema world to put Miss Diana Wynyard in a leading role, and it is encouraging to see the star of "Cavaleade" already keeping the best company which the screen world can afford, Lewis Stone, whose praise has always been insufficient. Phillips Holmes, of the sharp aesthetic face, is the man in whose breast the conflict of principle works. He is the internationally-minded American youth, who returns from his chemical studies in Geneva, to find America embarking on the second "war to end war" in 1940. His birth was the result...
...fairly be assumed that Dartmouth, which inaugurated the selective system and has admitted a number of applicants beneath its aegis, is satisfied with the results insofar as they are measurable. But the inference, immediately drawn in many quarters, that such a system would mark a salutary step forward in other liberal arts colleges, is not very soundly based. For among the chief implications of personalized admission is an increased flexibility in standards. If this purpose were not in the background, admission rules and a selective system need not be mutually exclusive, for inflexible standards might be applied and a personal...
...sort of bastard Ocdipus of "Boys in Uniform" is a weak substitute for the Sappho of "Girls in Uniform." A soulful cadet is in love with his young step mother, who has married his ancient soldier father for reasons unexplained. There is a murder, the cadet is accused refuses to speak to save his mother sweetheart's honor, and in general displays all the noble qualities of man. After a courtroom scene of strange procedure the mystery is solved and the situation ends substantially where it began...
...those paranoiac which, appearently, haunt parents when their children decided to become sheriffs or outlaws. While the conclusions of the article are interesting only in their absurdity, they move in a just cause; if the programs in question are abolished for any reason whatever, it will be a forward step...
...This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where there is substance there must...