Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirsty desert travelers often glimpse sparkling oases which vanish on closer approach, are found to be mirages, optical illusions, frauds...
Perhaps there seem to drum in imagination's ear those feverish midnight hoofbeats which so often heralded (in winter or summer, snow or clear) the approach of the mad yet somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women...
Even from this, the U. S. correspondents present failed unanimously to sense the approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
...without external stimuli. The amount of outside work that a student does in the course should be a matter left for him to decide for himself, depending on his interest in the subject. He should theoretically be able to absorb enough from the lectures to pass. His should gradually approach the graduate student's attitude. Until then --we need snap courses. Columbia Spectator...
...generally agreed that this has been a bad season for those Cambridge sportsmen whose favorite pastime is lying on the boathouse dock under the benefit and browning influence of the sun; it has been a cool and cloudy May. With the approach of examinations, however, Sol makes a belated appearance, and sculling is open once more for those who believe in a clear head as the best preparation for a mental ordeal; and once more the tannery on the Charles is doing a good business in idleness and early sunburns...