Word: access
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuing to expound the benefits of her art, the palmist explained that if one's hands are in a deplorable condition, foretelling only the darkest of future events, there is easy access to the medium of Astrology which might very likely afford a more favorable report. As a last resort this clever person can with equal skill turn to card reading...
Auto-Education is the name of the method by which the pupil's attention is awakened. The child is given access to a room full of "didactic material''-scores of ingenious, practical devices which he handles and learns to use. There are pieces of cloth on racks for three-year-olds to button and unbutton, bow-knots to be tied and untied, shoe-buttoners to be handled. Infants, when let alone, learn to identify similar buttons and knots on their own clothing, are thus taught to dress themselves...
This camp was admirably located to provide access to the geological features of the easternmost range of the Canadian Rockies. Here also the men could be initiated into the technicalities of mountain climbing, as Roche Miette towered 4000 feet above the camp and gave splendid preparatory training for those who hoped later to scale the glacier-hung and snow-capped mountains a few miles farther west...
...possess over those in the strictly professional school comes from the close contact with the life of a great university, with its tremendous breadth of interest, its opportunities for seeing and hearing the leaders in the world's activities, its museums, the opportunity to hear fine music, and the access to a great library, with its treasures of literature of the ages. For the undergraduate, too, the friendly association with students whose major interest lies in fields other than engineering cannot but be of real benefit