Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goose Step by Upton Sinclair we read: "Today he (Buck) boasts that he is worth 400 millions. . . . Assuming that his services in providing the world with tobacco were worth $100 a week it would have taken 154,000 years to earn his own share of this money. A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on his money-making methods contains the assertion that he 'persistently, continuously and consciously violated the law.' " I quote again: "This man who is worth $400,000,000 pays only $828 taxes in the State where he lives in a magnificent palace...
President Lowell of Harvard University, who sometimes seems very close to the stern, unbending Puritan of tradition, has yielded one step to the protest of Harvard graduates and undergraduates against the intention to omit from the new Harvard Memorial Chapel any mention of the three Harvard graduates who died fighting in the German armies. The chapel will be a monument to the men who gave their lives in the Allied cause, but there will be room in it for a tablet to the three Germans, all of whom, as it happens, died before the United States entered the World...
...went first to the Germanic Museum, it is just a step from Memorial, with its curious exterior. In this building he found housed certain replicas of German culture which he secretly considers, from the depths of his casual knowledge about such things, to be one of the most highly developed and interesting of any nation. There were statues of Frederick the Great and the Great Elector. Before this last the Vagabond paused a moment in indecision. Did the adjective reflect on the man's girth or his mental ability...
...less from the U. S., and Chinese importers are now unhappy about one of smart Dr. Soong's shrewd moves. The Finance Minister, although silver is legal tender everywhere in China, has put through a decree that goods entering from abroad must pay duty in gold. But for this step, Chinese economists say, silver's depressed value would soon bankrupt the Government...
...adoption of the new rules is a welcome step in that it will make college hockey a faster and better game both to play and to watch. Players and spectators alike will benefit. Moreover, the addition of speed to the game will mean that more men, especially forwards, will be neded to play...