Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important one. Will the house masters and tutors whose interests are admittedly on the academic side of the new development take time out of their regular duties to try to decide matters athletic? Or will the H. A. A. with its experience and knowledge be allowed to step into house affairs so far as to regulate athletic organization? So far this problem has received relatively little attention, but it is to be hoped that when the time comes the House Masters will turn the task of straightening out house athletics to the H. A. A. BY TIME...
...topic will be "The first three dynasties: the organization of the administration; the arts and crafts; crude brick architecture; the step pyramid of Saqoara; granite temples of Giza. The next talk of the group, to be given next Tuesday, will continue in the same vein, being on "the consequences of the great period, dynasties V-VI. The causes of the collapse of the first great monarchy of Egypt...
...University of Illinois football eleven in voting against the election of a captain for 1930 on the theory that an athletic leader does not turn in his best game when he has the added care of a captaincy should not be hailed as such a progressive and significant step as metropolitan accounts would lead us to believe...
...lack of confidence in the economic future ... of the U. S. is foolish. . . . Words are not of any great importance in times of economic disturbance. It is action that counts. . . . The next practical step is the organizing and coordinating of a forward movement of business through the revival of construction activity, the stimulation of exports and of other legitimate business expansion...
...husking is cold and clear?the husks, brittle then, break easily. At Renz's the air was warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when you find...