Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millenium of political honesty on the banks of the Charles seems to have evolutionized into the Golden Age of incompetency. The latest false step of the committee in charge of the Student Council elections is doubly regrettable since the five men now serving on the board should, according to all pass-words of democracy, be those most desirable in the eyes of the class of 1931. Unfortunately, for democracy, not more than three of them can legally lend their services next year...
...present conditions it continues to attract an ever increasing enrolment, there is every justification for extending it over the period of two semesters. A superficial and frenzied smattering of many facts is certainly useless. To devote a year to obtaining a real knowledge of the subject would be a step toward avoiding the unfortunate impression of Harvard dilettantism...
...Last to step from the limousine and lie down under the robbers' guns, was Charles Schuveldt Dewey, financial adviser to Poland for the last two-and-a-half years. Aside from Mr. Dewey's letter of credit, which the Rumanian robbers scorned, they took from his well-lined pockets $2,000 in cash...
Penetrating descriptive force is Author Hazard's on occasion. "He had one of those retreating chins which is nevertheless determined; his teeth turned in, the kind of mouth people have who are afraid to step out and fight in the open but who secretly by hook or by crook are determined to have their own way." Nor is the book without humor, illustrated by the story of an old pastry-lover who interpreted literally and insistently the statement on restaurant menus: "All kinds of pie, 10?...
...like a Packard. I had one that I drove about two hundred and sixty-eight thousand miles. I took care of it, and it never failed me. If I had to get out of a tight place, I could step on the gas, and I knew just what she would do, and she always did it. Owning that Packard to me meant being sure of having the car I liked best, having the exclusive use of it, being sure that no irresponsible person who had no stake in it would put it out of order, being able to take care...