Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Joseph Randolph Nutt, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, resigned his post as President of the Cleveland Union Trust Co., Washington bubbled with reports that he was preparing to step into Mr. Huston's place at the head of the committee. What gave substance to this rumor was the high favor in which Mr. Nutt is held by all factions of the G. O. P. A peerless campaign cash collector, a potent businessman of discretion and sense, Treasurer Nutt conferred long and feelingly with President Hoover a fortnight ago about Mr. Huston's predicament and the possible...
...eleventh year of shouting through walrus-like whiskers the contempt he feels for Poland's Parliament and Poland's politicians,* Marshal Josef Pilsudski took a drastic step last week, told President Ignatz† Mosciki of Poland to call to the Prime Ministry Judge Jan Pilsudski. Promptly the President did as he was told...
Sunbeams dancing on the hard road made the barefoot Saint's steps hot. Eighteen of the 79 disciples who tried to hot-step after him dropped exhausted, were bundled into automobiles by friends of the saint, rushed to the nearest village, weeping because they had "failed the Master...
Science has been taking slow, groping steps toward a common explanation for all physical phenomena. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79), father of the trend, stated that electricity and magnetism were nearly the same thing. Step by step interrelations have been discovered between electricity, magnetism, light, gravity. The general tendency is to reduce the universe to one of wave phenomena...
Last week he came out, announced to the world in general and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in particular that he had revised his original work, had gone one step further, had solved his field equations for a definite set of physical facts...