Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should not grow angry at his Norman invasion, nor call the special body of armed men. For perhaps all is just as it should be; the burglar merely anticipating a great social reform, the state already beginning to wither away. He should find some consolation in his first constructive step towards the socialization of the means of production, even though the ownership be but multiplied by two; and perhaps he may continue his good work if he will only be so good as to replenish his supply of hens and continue to leave the door unlocked...
Mensuren. The desire to revive all the pomps and practices of pre-War Germany took a notable step forward last week when the Hitler Cabinet announced the restoration of all German orders, decorations and titles of nobility. New Nazi decorations are about to be established but they can only be bestowed by the President. Prussia will once more have a House of Peers. New Peers will be created by the Premier on behalf of the Chancellor-in other words Handsome Adolf, like Napoleon, will found his own aristocracy. The Governments of Prussia, Baden, Bavaria rescinded all Republican laws against mensuren...
...asked me if I was on watch. I said 'Yes, sir. I have the telephone at this station.' He stopped on the first step leading down the gangway [to the control car] and I said 'Admiral, you must like flying on this ship.' He replied 'I am very fond of it; much more so than the other (meaning HTA,* I assume). ... It is much better than the Shenandoah.' I replied 'Yes, sir' and he then proceeded to the control...
Voting unanimously last night to defer the election of the majority of its members to the end of the Senior year, the undergraduate body of Phi Beta Kappa took an epechal step toward dissipating the belief of many that a gold key does not mean intellectual power, but merely the ability to grind out high course marks. Although any system of selecting men upon whom to confer recognition of scholastic achievement is necessarily fallible, that based primarily on course marks has, at least at Harvard, been demonstrated inadequate and unjust...
Minus its bar, Hausmann's has gone on selling near-beer, as has oldtime Fauerbach's. Both will step it up. Madison's Silver Dollar Bar is gone, but not Hammacher's where freshmen had to "cross the Rubicon"- down a two-quart stein in the tradition, without the sabre-flourishes and "prosits," of the salamander ceremony still performed by German Studentenkorps...