Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel. Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
...First step in Dr. Center's clinic is to measure hops, fixations and regressions with an ophthalmograph. which takes motion pictures of a reader's eye movements. The resulting picture looks like sets of stairs, recording the eye's stops and jerks. If the reader is efficient, the stairs are regular...
...school, believes that teachers-to-be should taste life's dishes. It sends its students out to run farm and community activities among Carolina hillbillies, to study industry in factories, to travel in Europe. Last week New College's head, sharp-faced Dr. Thomas Alexander, went a step farther. Although most U. S. school officials expect their teachers to stay out of politics and economic conflicts. Dr. Alexander announced his college would award scholarships next term to the two students who had been most active politically and socially. Credit will be given for work in organizing unions, soapbox...
...monthly last year on a lingering printing bill, passed title to Syndicator Bourjaily on his notes, pending sale of his comfortable United Feature stock holdings. When Kable Bros, returned Mr. Bourjaily's notes a month ago they asked Mr. Newman, then Judge's political writer, to step in as publisher; are negotiating with him over purchase of Judge...
Colonel McEntee's Military History of the World War is a huge volume of 583 large pages, complete with 459 maps, charts and time schedules of battles. Its main contribution is its pictorial demonstrations of both original plans for battles and step-by-step diagrams of the way they worked out. Thus Colonel McEntee exhaustively describes the original von Schlieffen Plan that called for invasion of Belgium, uses nine maps to show what happened when the Marne was reached and changes in the Plan had weakened the German forces. Relying heavily on official reports. Colonel McEntee writes uncritically, only...