Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alert modernity which has always, at least to this reader, characterized TIME! I am always stimulated by what I see and read in your magazine but I was really shocked by this portrait. To look at it is a dull and musty experience. Why can't TIME keep step with art as well as politics and science...
...Great Mystic, "only implies complete independence, because popular imagination in this country can never reconcile itself to the idea of a British statesman making a bona fide offer of equality. I hold differently. The British people are a practical race who love liberty for themselves. It is only a step further to love liberty for other people...
...paper wealth amounted to $500,000 when the crash came and cleaned him out. By then he was living expensively, bibulously, had long been fired from his bank. The morning after one last desperate party he decided to kill himself, went up to the penthouse to step over the edge. But there a girl was waiting for him. She persuaded him to go for a walk, and told him about her own troubles, which were worse than his. Her father had killed himself; her sister had died in a sanatorium for drug-addicts; her brother had gambled the remaining family...
Some plan generally similar to that of the Chicago "colleges" may prove the solution of two pressing problems; the presence of uninterested and unfit students in the advanced stages of university work, and the disproportionate length of time necessary for professional training. The "college" takes a step toward solving the first problem by providing a general education for the large group who neither wish nor deserve specialized instruction in the arts and sciences. It avoids the necessity of persevering through four years merely because "there is no curriculum leading to a dignified terminus at an earlier period...
...logical step in the direction of a scientific understanding of human relations has been taken by the University in the establishment of a Division of Sociology. The new Division will absorb the present Department of Sociology and Social Ethics and will also include many courses now given in the Division of History, Government, and Economics. To these it will add many new courses of its own. Yale, in its Institute of Human Relations, and the University of Chicago have already realized the need for official recognition of a field which has grown steadily since the first impetus given...