Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small a part, and shoddy party politics for personal gain, so great a one. He then proceeds to champion the ideals of Jeffersonian democracy as the true basis for American representative government, the foundation of which President Butler considers to be individual liberty, rather than equality. A practical step toward the guarantee of true representation, he feels, should be the revision of the electoral systems now in use; for Mr. Butler, like many others, feels that the party system is dead and that consequently its functions must be reconstructed...
Germany and Austria and many of the countries of Central Europe look with favor on the proposal, maintaining that the union is purely economic and hence does not violate the peace treaties. Germany claims, in addition, that the toll union is the first practical step toward the realization of the Pan-European ideal which France now champions...
History has no doubt taught France to dread the consequences of a German Zollverein, but in this instance France seems to be taking an unreasonable view of the matter, unwarranted by the actual facts. Austria and Germany have been forced to take this step from economic necessity, created by the World War, which left Austria with practically no resources and Germany little better off. As long as the participants are bound by the restrictions imposed by the allies in the peace treaties, the union can not be politically aggressive. For France can always check the actual union...
...permeable windows. A film of glass would serve, were it stout enough to withstand the suction of the Lenard vacuum tubes. Dr. Slack rounds the end of his vacuum tube until it resembles the butt of a test tube. Then he blows the glass to gossamer thinness. A last step is to exhaust the tube. This creates a knob at the tube's end, a knob so frail that when shattered its glassy film floats in air. so stout that it is as strong as steel. Result is that a pressure of only 30,000 volts is needed to fire...
...Versailles, but this ground is unsound in view of the fact that both countries retain their sovereighty and separate political entity. However, many Germans and Austrians, remembering how the Prussian customs union helped to unite Germany politically into the German Empire, now hail this alliance as the first step toward a political union in the future; but such an "Anschluss" would need the consent of the League of Nations, which France and her satellites would almost certainly block...