Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull are the Sunday night programs sponsored by B. B.C.'s director that most Continental stations step up their power to reach British listeners. †At an earlier meeting of the radio council, Vice President Henry Adams Bellows of Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., onetime member of the Federal Radio Commission, said that a proposal made by Secretary Wilbur's committee to allocate 15% of all radio time for educational purposes would mean a "great disaster" to the cause of radio education, for the present audiences which have been built up by commercial stations would not tune...
...Austrian Foreign Minister let himself be led into an exchange of remarks in English with Mr. Henderson, who said in a general way that Austria and Germany ought to take no further step about Zollverein while this issue was before the Court. Dr. Schober agreed in a general way in English. Quick as a flash Uncle Arthur asked him to repeat and confirm his "pledge." Caught, flushing darkly, Dr. Schober did as the Scotsman asked. In Berlin irate editors soon echoed former German Finance Minister Peter Reinhold who said: "Dr. Schober surrendered completely to Mr. Henderson chiefly because he failed...
...berates in other scientists their feeling that life is inscrutable. Cried he last week: "Shall chance, probability, indeterminism become the foundation of the philosophy of biology as they are of the philosophy of the physical world? Shall 'life' forever remain a word without an accurate definition? . . . Step by step one mystery of life after another is being revealed. Whether the human mind will ever attain complete and absolute knowledge of and complete mastery over life is not essential...
...required for all those who occupy the offices mentioned above, there would be little question that some benefit would arise. The success of the professionalization of the diplomatic force during the past ten years bears witness of the fact that this is far from an exaggerated statement. Such a step in the field which the Institute hopes to help would raise the prestige of the offices and remove their present political nature. The result would unquestionably be more able and better trained men in charge of the important and fundamental departments which have to do with crime prevention...
Although for a long time it has been rumored that such a step would take place, as part of the general development taken in recent years by the astronomical for the first time that the move had already been taken, and that as a matter of fact the contract was already in the hands of leading eastern manufacturers, who will bid for the privilege of constructing it. Together with the announcement that the telescope was shortly to be erected, Dr. Shapley discussed other items in the new development plan, including the construction of the new annex to the main building...