Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, a comparatively small attendance was recorded at the opening game. A scant 7000 people viewed the contest. The nearest approach to this year's anticipated attendance was the crowd of two years ago, which witnessed the Crimson's opening contest with the University of Virginia eleven. Almost 23,000 people attended the encounter...
...laws insist that the Constitution be studied in our schools and colleges with due regard for the sanctity of the text and with no taint of higher criticism, but rather in all its textual literalness--that is to say, in the same uncritical spirit that characterizes the fundamentalist approach to the first chapter of Genesis...
...propegrade and counter-propaganda working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions or inertia of the people. The rst. inclination of most men and women is to connect every new problem with something already silhouetted in their imaginations some principle that has already found lodgment there. Very few of us approach any new public question with open minds; or rather, we do it with minds that are open at the bottom only, not open at the top. Arguments and appeals to reason go in and fall right out again. The stereotype remains unaltered...
Author Dewing's approach to her character is, like him, unique. The story is not told straight out; she pretends to collaborate with John's mother, evoking his image and career piecemeal from the recollections and letters of people who knew him; from news cutting about him, interviews, reviews of his books. (There is one review...
...Revolt in Modern Poetry" is so grand an achievement as to take its place in the rank of masterpieces of literary criticism, whose "Two figures of Earth" in a recent number of the Yale Review is stimulating in the vastness of its concept, in the directness of its approach. He spends classroom hours expounding the benefits to be derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss Perry, formerly editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar for being more the teacher does...