Word: steps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first step toward strengthening the work of the Freshman year, funds should be made available so that young instructors with experience, ability, and interest in teaching similar to that required for tutorial work may be appointed as assistants and instructors. The number of part-time teachers in Freshman courses should be reduced. In some cases, if the compensation is made sufficiently attractive and scholarships available, a young instructor could afford to give alternate years to uninterrupted graduate work and to full-time teaching. The recognition in exceptional cases of especial teaching ability and interest in working with young...
Efforts to perfect dial automatic switching began soon after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. Some 3,000 patents for machine-switching devices have been filed in the U. S. alone. Out of all these patents, two main systems have evolved, the step-by-step and the panel.* The telephone subscriber cannot tell the two systems apart; the dials and the act of dialing look identical. But in the step-by-step system the mechanical combination necessary to ring the desired number is built up directly, by separate impulses from the dial. In the panel system, a more...
...radical step has been taken in the removal of the usual curtain, a haze of light thrown from the extremities of the stage providing the necessary separation from the audience. These lights will be directed from a control-box in the balcony which has been erected at the rear of the theatre behind the audience, an arrangement so far unique in the history of the stage...
...long road and the worm has turned. With youth, discontent is frequently the first step toward progress, and occasionally dissatisfaction has led to some rather original methods of melioration. A young man who has evidently experienced a protracted period of unemployment offered yesterday morning in the advertising section of a New York paper "a chance for an employer". The announcement suggests that a personable young male of twenty-one, enjoying excellent health, and a prepossessing appearance, with an education and a liberal share of gray matter, will consider legibly written offers of less than 500 words from prospective employers...
...staunch men" support every community chest. Cleveland, which raised $4,667,224 for its chest and $751,300 additional for unemployment relief, has its Samuel Livingston Mather, richest citizen. He gave $186,000. His step-brother William Gwinn Mather gave...