Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Russians still have their mail tampered with, their telephones tapped, and are still likely to be waked up in the night to be carted off to jail without warrant or due process of law, it was a first step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious...
...papers from a new $150,000 building. Each paper owns half the stock in the operating company, of which Mr. Stahlman is chairman, Mr. Evans president. Competition ceases, for the Tennessean has dropped its evening paper, the Banner its Sunday paper. Editorial departments retain full autonomy. Nashville carries one step farther the plan used by Publisher Roy Howard in co-operation with Scripps-Howard's Albuquerque and El Paso competitors, insists that national advertisers must use space in both the Banner and Tennessean...
...short, I doubt if Japan can check the growth of Chinese patriotism. It is too late. Every new railroad, every Japanese sentry, every step in the inevitable industrialization of China will tend to increase it. A people who until eighty years ago regarded themselves, not without justification, as the center of the civilized world, are not likely to forget their past. Remembering it, they are not likely to acquiesce in the domination of invaders who, in order to maintain their power, must seek to reverse the current of China's modern intellectual development. Friction will result, for a long time...
...Greninger is at present studying Martensite, one of the hardening constituents of steel. Although a great deal of work has been done on this problem, very few fundamental facts are as yet known. However, Dr. Greninger is attacking the problem with great success, as the first step in a new extended study of the transformations which occur during the heat treatment of steel...
...Another step in the campaign to unionize 2700 University employees, was taken last night by Robert H. Everitt, district representative of the International Building Service Employees' Union at a preliminary organization meeting of maids at Brattle Hall...