Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commonplace that the first step toward wisdom is a realization of the problems which anyone faces in trying to frame a philosophy. Until it has discovered those problems and asked the right questions, the mind ignores many relevant facts. It is an outstanding weakness in college instruction that it presents students with masses of facts without showing why the facts are important, without showing to what fundamental problems they are relevant. The Dunster House Forum is an excellent instrument for cantering attention on the basic difficulties of thought...
...Lindbergh's known movements throughout the week indicated step-by-step the course of his negotiations with the criminals and their subsequent collapse. Early last week he and his lawyer. Col. Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked...
...hurl such a proclamation at high-spirited New South Welshmen was risky. "But surely every step must be taken!" cried Premier Lyons' wealthy Cabinet colleague Stanley Melbourne Bruce. "Surely everything possible must be done to check this man [Premier Lang] who is a menace to Australia in his mad career...
...note which he strikes in such pictures as 'Midsummer,' 'Old Wharves,' 'Fog' and 'The Inlet.' He paints with increased breadth and force, without forgetting the sound composition to which we have become accustomed in his work. He leaves the impression of an artist who has taken a decisive step forward...
What went on at the Manhattan meeting, held in the offices of General Electric Co., was not revealed. The problem to be untangled was how to reorganize the vast Insull structure so that neither noteholders nor bankers will step in and disrupt it. To do this will probably demand either a tremendous extension of credit, a sale of some assets, the issuance of new securities to noteholders and bankers, or a combination of these steps. While it was stated that Owen D. Young was entering the situation only as Samuel Insull's personal friend historians recalled that in the early...