Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These higher courses well repay the men who have patiently endured the memory work of the first courses. From the factory-like regulations of the early work--where results must be produced in a certain time, and the student is ruled by limiting laboratory regulations, the step to the later work is most pleasant...
...conference in the Treasury went on, adjourned for supper, went on again. After his first report from Secretary Woodin, President Roosevelt took the first and long anticipated step of his promised "action": He called the new Congress for March 9. Not till nearly midnight when the deliberations of the Treasury conference had been well mulled over, did he take his first direct action on the banking situation. Calmly in his study, with a fresh cigaret carefully placed in ivory holder, he proclaimed - under the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act of 1917-which gave the President power to regulate foreign exchange...
...backer, and this time he won a clear victory. Rustless Iron was launched in 1926 to exploit the U. S. rights to a simple process for making stainless steel, developed by a fat, genial Briton from Sheffield named Ronald Wild. The Wild process combines chromium and steel in one step where other processes take three steps. Shortly before Metallurgist Wild retired because of poor health in 1931, Charlie Payson became visible in the light of fireworks in Rustless Iron stock...
Most clever novelists are content if they can make their stupid characters appear dunces, but clever Authoress Bowen has gone a step further and made fools of her clever people. A long step in advance of The Hotel (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), To the North is written with the same unblinking observation that may seem to some readers heartless but is so devoid of comment that it cannot be called cynical...
...that tomorrow the bill handed to Congress will provide for this essential step of inflation. A pessimistic view, however, is that Mr. Woodin will continue to tie himself in knots to prove that we are still on the gold standard, even though dollar bills cannot now be redeemed at the Treasury. He and President Roosevelt may refuse to expand the scrip issue unless secured by bank paper, thus leaving the money-circulation at a near-zero rate. If they take this attitude, and it is all too likely that they will, business activity will falter, slow down, and come increasingly...