Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congress last week completed some three months of its session, a period marked by unusual legislative progress and a great deal of amity, all things considered. The tactics of the minority in the Senate who fought the World Court to the last ditch produced the only approach to a really good fight that this session of Congress has seen. There is something wrong about this situation. There should be trouble and plenty of it. This is an election year. In only a few weeks the primaries begin. In less than eight months a new Congress will be elected. And where...
Miss Bordoni then turned from her dislike of the movies to a discussion of popular winter resorts. "The Riviera and Nice may be wonderful resorts, but no place on earth can approach the delights of Palm Beach. The climate on the Riviera is bad; in the sun you throw aside all your clothes, while nearby in a shaded street you have to be carefully wrapped in furs. But Palm Beach; just give me five months a year in Palm Beach--. Some one said I talked as though I was trying to sell real estate, but though I buy, I never...
Japanese speculators rubbed and rubbed their crinkly parchment-skinned hands. The yen has been mounting, leaping upward. Last week it touched 46.19?, the nearest approach to parity (49.85?) since...
...found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...
Scouting around the outskirts of authoritative information, Robert Choate of the Boston Herald has been able to ascertain the general reaction among Democratic senators and congressmen to the approach of the mid-term elections. Although many men of influence, Senator Walsh among them, preferred to hold their peace, a number of lesser lights revealed a divergent drift under cover of a common watchword...