Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hiring of Hicks is perhaps the most positive academic step that the University has taken forward this year. It tears away the shirt of jingoistic hysteria which covers the breast of every unenlightened politicians. It establishes the worthy principle of hiring teachers who openly admit their radicalism and shames men who, while propagandizing in their classrooms, try to conceal their political sentiments. Recognizing Marxism as a serious and possibly worthwhile approach to literature and history is an intelligent action that cannot be successfully assailed by uninformed and fanatic political reactionaries such as exist in the Massachusetts legislature...
...local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...
...accent to reason Mr. McNinch away from some of his notions. Reports that he was going to censor all radio material to prevent such celebrated slips as the affair Mae West, he implied, were ridiculous. He will take no salary. When Radio really finds a Tsar, he will gracefully step aside...
With the Fourth of July just around the corner, it is high time that steps were taken to really celebrate the birthday of the United States. Away with picnicking, motoring, listening to political rallies, holding family reunions, and other more or less painful ways of getting killed! Let Mallinckrodt Laboratory step into the breach by advocating something for the Mallinckrodtians to advocate. What will it be? Why, let the Mallinckrodtians advocate fireworks...
...heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome-Berlin axis, and the friendly manner in which the two strong men goose-step arm in arm and kid each other about colonies, is among the best touches of the production...