Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anaheim, one of the oldest towns in California, tried issuing scrip last winter. The amateur financiers of Anaheim used 4? stamps on their currency, followed the Evanston plan in the main but neglected one step: making a tax certificate refund to merchants. Result: Puzzled merchants found themselves accepting scrip, buying stamps, but not getting anything back to pay for merchandise sold. The plan was actually a 4% sales...
...with 26,740 pre-Plan tractors, the Soviet Union has now increased its stable of iron steeds to 147,800. Precisely at this point-at the juncture of Industry and Agriculture symbolized by the Great God Tractor-the two largest phases of the Plan got out of step with each other, produced clashes and repercussions which have rocked all Russia...
...enabled at once to broaden his mind and to have time for that social intercourse which is so important a part of his education, and of which he will have so little when entombed for four years in the Fenway. But Freshmen are afraid to take this step, believing that they need all the since they can get; the impetus here must less walling and gashing of teeth among future pre-medical students: and, more important, the rank and file of doctors will have something in their heads besides Gray's Anatomy...
...some students are not satisfied with the present arrangement, I see no point in obliging them to take tutorial work. But to make general examinations entirely optional is a step backward toward slovenly dilettantism...
...step is in line with yearly changes intended to allow the student to go ahead on his own merits...