Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearance: Although 76 years old, he appears 15 years younger. His eyes, behind pincenez, are bright, his step is lively, his manner politely alert. He dresses well, usually in light grey. He has a pleasant easy smile, speaks in a low voice, ingratiates strangers. An Episcopalian, he regularly attends St. John's Church in Washington, St. John's Church in Stamford. He does not smoke...
...great step came when Newton (1642-1727) gave Space a definite physical reality in his theories of force accelerating bodies, the movement being measurable in reference to a really rigid body. The introduction of "ether" by Faraday (1791-1867) and Maxwell (1831-79) to explain their electro-magnetic field theories was the last great step before Einstein's relativity theories...
...aviation companies Berliner-Joyce, Curtiss-Caproni, Doyle Aero. Industries such as these, Baltimoreans hope, will transform their City of Monuments into a city of tycoons, will swell Baltimore's population from 850,000 to the more satisfactory 1,000,000. Such transformation and swelling seemed to move a step nearer last week when a new $5,000,000 Procter & Gamble factory was nearing completion. Gratefully, therefore, a group of Baltimoreans planned to give in the Chesapeake Club on the top floor of the new skyscraping Baltimore Trust Co., a dinner in honor of Col. Procter...
...Shanks' biography traces Bandelaire's life and work from his pre-natal influences to the grave. Every step of the way the author follows the guidance of Baudelaire's poems or letters. The biography has the ring of authenticity on every page, a the same time it has all the freshness and realism which the most careless member of the ultra-modern biographical school can boast...
...finds its relaxation in other ways would be greatly affected. With working hours made shorter and less wearing, and sports, radio and automobiles to provide harmless occupations for leisure time, there is small reason to suppose that any great increase in the consumption of alcohol would follow such a step...