Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most unsatisfactory was the step taken in Geneva last week by Liberia's Antoine Sottile, her representative at the League of Nations. Replying to the League Commission's recommendations for abolishing slavery in Liberia, he declared in an official note...
...resolution of the Harvard Student Council, which states that "Harvard-Princeton competition cannot take place too soon" was the last step necessary to show the cordial feeling between the present student bodies, the editorial points...
...stimulated by nerves attached to the spinal cord, over which the brain has no control, and affects the heart directly as does adrenalin. It has previously been supposed that adrenalin and allied substances were given off by the adrenal glands. This discovery is termed by scientists an important forward step in elucidating the action of the sympathetic nervous system and the emotional acceleration of the heart...
Economics A took a progressive step in assigning the more able students 'to special sections, but the limit of improvement is by no means reached by this action. The total lack of lectures continues to present an inadequacy. Formerly, regular lectures were given, but it was found that this system was not successful. Accordingly the more efficient section-meeting was substituted, with a reservation for the use of the lecture at any time. The purpose of this reservation, which was to allow a change in cases where it seemed best, has not been realized...
...people become acclimatized to strange and new conditions. The attempts made to ease the way after graduation are keeping pace with the endeavors to smooth the transition from preparatory schools to colleges. It is not unfair to say that the former should receive the greater emphasis because a wrong step taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing the young engineers of the conditions that govern...