Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight at the Commander Hotel, in Cambridge, the Bond Astronomical Club will hold its annual dinner, at which it is expected that an important step in the growth of the Harvard Observatory will be announced. At the dinner, which is scheduled to begin at 7 o'clock, Odin Roberts '86, Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, and Miss Margaret Harwood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, are to be the speakers of the evening...
...Russian has had to apply for a ration card in order to buy a pair of shoes or a scuttleful of coal. Having obtained this card (after wrangling and explanations as to why he needed shoes-it being no explanation to wiggle one's bare toes) the next step was to take the card and stand in a slow-moving line of perhaps 500 persons. In the boxoffice would be a clerk, bored and discourteous. When the barefoot man with the card got to this clerk, perhaps after standing in line half a day, he might be told that...
...decision of Yale University to drop Latin and Greek from the list of subjects required for an undergraduate degree is neither surprising nor a new departure in modern education. It merely points to the trend which university education is taking; it is another step in the direction of education--of the most practical and "worth-while" sort--for everybody. The modern young business man, we are told, who has taken four extra years out of his life to get himself educated desires to study subjects that will be useful to him in the cement business, in the manufacture of washing...
Centre of their attack was the projected Austro-German Zollverein or customs union, which Frenchmen suspect, probably accurately, is only a first step toward a complete Austro-German political union (TIME, March 30, April 6). Anti-Briandists insisted that as Foreign Minister he should have foreseen, should have prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken...
...will have been president 25 years, an official 42. The way he told of his retiring was to conclude his annual report with the hope that by that date the third generation of museum trustees, whose remaining lifetime "may be estimated at 20 years . . . will be able to step into the boots of the president...