Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irritating step in economic warfare which will tend to destroy friendly international relations. . . . It is an unwarranted invasion by the Government into the field of private business. . . . It is a return to the obsolete system of barter and involves discrimination and retaliation. . . . It is arbitrary and unfair. It nullifies our existing trade treaties. So protesting vigorously against it, I speak for 800,000 businessmen of the United States...
Jazz has made radio broadcasting, and young William Samuel Paley has kept step with the jazz age. Long ago he set himself up in the world like a Fitzgerald hero. Two years ago he moved into a three-story penthouse on svelte Park Avenue, from which he could look down on a building called the Ritz Tower. The apartment was decorated by Theatrical Designer Lee Simonson. It had a dressing room with racks for 100 shirts, 100 neckties, a fancy barroom reached by an aluminum staircase. His modernistic bedroom held a big bed equipped with push buttons for books, chromatic...
...know", he said. "It generally takes me about eight weeks to build a shell, and the total cost is $900, although when we have shells built, they cost about $1500. When it comes to accidents to shells, it is singular to note that it is the experienced men who step through the bottom, and not the novices, simply because the former are careless and too sure of themselves. A University cox is also generally more apt to get in accidents while on practice rows than a greenhorn; a few years ago a University cox ran his boat right...
...current complication in the Far East, but to every nation and every treaty under the aegis of the League. Temporary exigencies have blinded diplomats to the ultimate consequences of such a policy, and when the present emergency is past the League would do well to reconsider its step in the light of President Lowell's suggestions...
...distinction between the child and the adult criminal. When a few days ago President Hoover-recommended that the Attorney General be empowered to forego prosecution of children and turn them over to the state authorities for special care, he was proposing no startling advance but was merely advising a step that long since should have been taken...