Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain were to receive recognition of their belligerent rights after the withdrawal of "substantial" numbers of the foreign volunteers now fighting with their troops (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.). "Please, gentlemen, proceed," Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky unexpectedly told the Non-intervention Committee last week. "We [the Soviet Union] will step aside and abstain from voting on the controversial portions of the British plan [the Scheme], giving our blessing to the rest of it. Thus the door is not bolted, it is open. . . . Proceed, gentlemen, proceed...
Last week, however, the U. S. went a step farther than Britain. Not merely to counteract propaganda which leads to hatred and misunderstanding, but actively to promote international friendship, the U. S. Government went on the air to sing not its own praises but those of its neighbors. Over 65 Columbia Broadcasting System stations, the most elaborate educational radio program ever attempted by the Government began ''Brave new world! The story of Latin America. . . . Twenty nations with a history and culture to be admired and a democratic ideal we share...
...associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary; funny peculiar is taboo...
...population in their grip, and which now are rare occurrences, how much public health services and public hospitals have contributed to stamping out these diseases. The democracy does provide curative treatment for its citizens, and to have this care extened to wiping out disease through prevention is just one step forward in the march of our civilization...
...order in which they should be presented, and if every section were required to follow one of these plans, the number of examinations necessary would be reduced to three, or four, as the case might be. Although this would not be a complete solution, it would be a long step toward a much-needed reform...