Word: approach
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strain or melodic phrase is almost lost sight of. "John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave. His soul is marching on," represents in a manner the modern delivery of poetry. In Latin it would be, "JohnBrown'sbody liesamoulderingin thegrave. Hissoulismarchingon." The attempt has been made to approach the Latin metrical utterance, though in many places our English influences have been rather too strong...
Just as in days when the fog shuts down about us in dense clouds and we see the impenetrable wall about us which we can never dare to approach; so in life when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely...
...realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is like Massinger. The latter is very skillful in his dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways, Shakespeare far surpasses them as a poet, a painter of character, and an imaginative writer...
...Friends Again," although it loses much force by over description, is certainly the best of the other sketches which gradually deteriorate in value as they approach the end of the number...
...broad jump Bloss broke his previous record by a jump of 22 ft. 4 in. winning first place. He tried several times to beat this but missed his footing or slipped every time and could not approach it. This gave him first place, however. Sheldon of Yale was second with a jump of 22 ft. 2 in. O. W. Shead came in third with...