Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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School of Weevil Thought No. 2 was more interested last week in a step taken by Mississippi than in Dr. Miller's discovery. Over and over cotton planters have heard that their only salvation lies in crop limitation. It remained for the Mississippi State Senate to take the first definite step in that direction by passing a bill (the House had yet to act) providing that no grower could plant more than 60% of his total crop acreage in any one year in cotton, under a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or three months in the county...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's jewels have been his sons-in-law. With the late Edward William Bok he built his great magazine publishing business (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, et al.). And for the last 17 years his dapper, alert step-son-in-law, John Charles Martin, has busied himself in the other Curtis publishing enterprise, that of gaining control of the Philadelphia newspaper field. Announced, last week, was the seventh addition to Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc.?The Philadelphia Inquirer...
Three prospective House brothers climb up through the debris to find room x 79. A southern exposure, not far from the dining hall and shielded from the noise of the court. Not bad. And then there's the new gymnasium just a step away providing a swim whenever one desires. Taking it all, and all it's not so unpleasant to be in these new units...
...Tuesday issue of the Yale News appeared a questionnaire on the subject of drinking, reprinted elsewhere in the columns of the CRIMSON. This investigation is not only a step in the right direction but an extremely well chosen one. Prohibition has long ceased to be a dead issue and further pretense is mere prejudice. The failure is acknowledged and has too often been repeated...
Harry Emerson Fosdick,--"The church will fight to the last ditch any step that looks like a return to the saloon. While laws are on the books, we will stand by them...