Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate tax on the new enrolments in the school will not be found to be overburdensome except in a few cases. It is altogether justifiable according to the universal and inevitable need for more highly paid teachers. The significance of the step lies in the fundamental difference between an educational system with an immediate commercial point of view and one which has as an object, the development of the mind. To make the student an integral part of a business organization is altogether in keeping with an American capitalistic educational theory...
Success should attend this experiment in which Harvard has taken the first step. Already several companies have taken an interest in it, and Juniors wishing summer employment with business firms are being urged to make their desires known. Perhaps as the experiment progresses its field will widen, and Technology will see fit, to undertake a similar endeavor. The Tech...
...British tenure, is the lease of Weihaiwei (Way-hi-way) - 285 square miles of free port, walled city, fertile farmland. The draft agreement, last week at Nanking by Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across...
...Baltimore & Ohio appeared well on the way to realize its consolidation ambitions. It announced that during 1929 it had acquired more than 250,000 shares of Reading stock, clinching once for all its control of the road over which it gains access to New York. An even more decisive step forward was the approval by the I. C.C. of the B. & O.'s petition to acquire the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, for which it has long been angling. This prosperous coal road is a very desirable strategic link between Buffalo and Pittsburgh, the two Great Eastern Gateways. Over...
...Here you are, sir,' he said. 'Here's your rat. A little the worse for wear, this sat is, I'm afraid, sir. A gentleman happened to step on it. You can't step on a nat,' he said, sententiously, 'not without hurting it. That...