Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing baccarat." felt foolish when the facts came out. Seasoned baccarat players harked back to 1890 when almost the whole English press raged at the then Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) for baccaratting, when German papers headlined sarcastically "Ich Deal," when the Archbishop of Canterbury had to step in for the honor of the Throne...
...rugged and loud, Publisher Scripps was fair. He saw and honored Howard's point and let him, with Son Robert P. Scripps, step in to renovate the chain's policy...
...leaders, two days after Alumni Day, signed a pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week?a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...
...late great War is still a little too close to be recollected in tranquillity; as yet no epic, prose or verse, has attempted to put it between covers as Thomas Hardy put the Napoleonic Wars in The Dynasts. But this anthology of War stories is a step in that direction. These 66 short stories, by French, German, British, U. S. authors, whether or not they are the best stories of the War, at least give a more representative picture than can be found in any one novel, poenij history...
...Graduate School of Education has taken a further step in its plan to bring the Department into closer contact with instructors already in the field by initiating a series of conferences for teachers of New England schools...