Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Committee will, as before, be thrown out of practice at a time when they are most needed. The Council praises itself for giving the Union Committee an added month in which to prosecute activities beneficial to the class; but it does not have the courage to carry this step to its logical and inevitable conclusion: having the Committee serve throughout the year, which can be done only if the Freshman elections are abolished...
...cases, husbands and wives agreed in rating their marriages, and in 24.7% they differed by only one step on the scale...
Meantime, Eastern's Manager Eddie Rickenbacker plus a dozen other expert navigators sweated over charts and signals from Pilot Jones in a hopeless effort to locate the wandering plane. At midnight, radio stations, led by WOR, began asking listeners to "step outside and see if you can hear an airplane anywhere over your home." Promptly from five States came 227 calls reporting the plane. Once the lost ship was said to be circling Manager Rickenbacker's house in Bronxville, N. Y. When Pilot Jones at last picked up a beacon, one & all cursed with relief, identified it from...
...closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings in that same city 245 years...
...Faith Baldwin's most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder of their former husband, while the District Attorney (Walter Abel) does his best to outwit the attorney for the defense, with whom he, too, is hopelessly in love...