Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointment of a permanent Dean for the Freshman Class is the first step that has been taken to carry out the improvements suggested in Dean Hanford's report on the first year at college. It was pointed out at that time that some stabilizing influence was necessary in that department to insure the experienced administration that the Freshman year requires. A permanent Dean supervising the first year and the two regular Freshman Deans is the best means of accomplishing this desired efficiency, for under such a system a uniform and effective policy can be carried...
...step-by-step dialing system is based on Inventor Almon B. Strowger's patents of 1891. These patents were developed and exploited by Automatic Electric Inc., manufacturers of Strowger Automatic Dial Systems...
Bell Laboratories developed the panel dialing system, first installed it extensively in 1919. The Bell telephone companies (16 million telephones) also use a step-by-step system, through certain patent agreements with Automatic Electric Inc. By other reciprocal patent agreements, other manufacturers are enabled to make variants of the basic dialing systems, offering their wares to independent telephone companies (four million instruments...
East and West. Second step in Publisher Cromie's plan, after cancelling War debts, was that the former debtors and creditors should cooperate to develop the Asiatic market, release the potentially limitless buying power of the East, thus restore boundless prosperity to the West...
...unremitting propagandist for himself and Socialism. When he talks his face is bright with a fanatic smile; he writes with humorless conviction. Eastern-bred, he lives in Pasadena, has twice run as Socialist candidate for Governor of California. Other books: The Jungle, The Brass Check, The Goose-Step, Oil!, Boston...