Word: steps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general the treatment and care we received in our Mt. Auburn St. exile was very good-the nurses were plentiful and usually friendly and helpful. The ward was clean and the medical attention apparently competent. And so we naturally attributed the condition of the food, so out of step with the rest of the infirmary, to a lack of funds. But now that a surplus of $30,000 has been revealed, it is time that the food situation at Stillman be made public...
...Five weeks of strike-shrouded, ill-tempered negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...
...back in shape again. Observatory Director Dr. Ira S. Bowen announced last week that the mirror, which was taken out for repolishing last May, has been tested on the stars and pronounced O.K. In places as much as 20 millionths of an inch of glass was polished off. Next step will be to cover the mirror with its shining coat of aluminum. Dr. Bowen hopes the big telescope will be hunting nebulae again by the first of the year...
...First step was to study the chemical structure of wool, which is made up of long, thin molecules linked together crosswise, roughly as the side pieces of a long ladder are linked by the rungs. The chemists found that if they broke the cross links chemically, the wool was much easier for the moths to digest. The links, apparently, were the moths' big problem. So the chemists reasoned that if the links were made stronger, the moths might not be able to digest the wool...
Commodore Pete Putnam, of the Crimson, insists that unless the two cancelled races are sailed next week, Harvard will consider its victory official. The Intercollegiate Yachting Association may have to step in to settle the dispute...