Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many Etonians, he is impervious to criticism. He is aloof, independent, sometimes satirical, often sarcastic, but more often kindly. His verse shows all these qualities; indeed, his poems form the epitome of his character. He has never been known to write a poem to order; the nearest approach he made to doing so was after the War, when the Armistice seemed to call for an heroic ode. which he penned and called Brittannia Victrix, and which is hardly characteristic of his works...
...foot of these steps the presidential car awaited. As the hoary president, hero of the Greece-Turkish Wars of 1897 and 1912-13, entered the automobile, a young man, one Zafioios Goussios, approached with apparent intent to serve a petition upon the chief executive. Policemen beamed paternally. The president was so democratic that anybody could approach him, thought they. Yes, indeed, all Athens was accustomed to seeing him walk the street, quite alone, and often a stranger would salute him and perhaps pass a few words about this and that...
...they have accomplished, is not known. In the interim, while the United States and Europe devoted themselves to a fad of things Russian, such as the Chauve Souris, the former dominions of the Czar have been the scene of events of a more serious nature. That Moscow faces the approach of winter with a thieving, lawless swarm of two hundred and fifty thousand homeless children--the "wild boys", the products of war and revolution--is a fact worthy of more than pictorial reproductions in the Sunday papers...
This address, the topic of which will be "The Approach to Italian Sculpture," will be given at 8 o'clock in the large Lecture Hall of the New Fogg Museum, and will be open to the public...
Professor Pierce is one of the leading authorities in this country in the field of communication engineering: and during the war carried on experiments in supersonics at the Bellevue Laboratory, Washington, D. C., to work out a means of detecting the approach of submarines. The naval officers who are studying at Harvard this year will work with the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, the detection of objects on the ocean floor, and the transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of lie men, as the primary...