Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also in order would be a drastic extension of freshman tutorial to include at least several more groups on the Rank List. Obviously in this second capacity it benefits the average as well as the honors student. A corollary of this step is the restriction of tutorial reading assignments so that too much extra work will not be placed upon those students who cannot well bear...
...fear. If Harvard is in financial difficulties at present, and there is no indication in the Report that it is, one thing remains certain--the marking up or down of book value will have no immediate consequences on its ability to provide for its dependents. The book revaluation step is but necessary and strengthening retrenchment, a step taken to make sure that when the University opens its purse, it can rely on the amount of money therein...
...sixth wheat producer, has been a noncooperating, in & out member of the International Wheat Advisory Committee, has been the principal impediment to world stabilization of wheat 'prices. Mr. Theis's desire to sell wheat to Brazil, a fat Argentine wheat market, was calculated to joggle Argentina one step nearer to cooperation with the international group...
...Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best suited his mood. And almost single-handed, he pulled English literature and society a step upward out of its complacent mire...
Last week, on his 64th birthday, able, amiable Sewell Avery moved from president to board chairman. Into his place stepped Raymond Henry Fogler, 46, quiet, serious, hard-working vice president in charge of operations, whom Mr. Avery hired away from W. T. Grant Co. in 1932. Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably...