Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark, killed Peter M. Posepny, Wisconsin University undergraduate. A jury acquitted Patrolman Powers of murder. Thereupon, the Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin undergraduate paper, published an editorial allegedly written by one Wesley Dunlap, of Salt Lake City. "We should like to see the police force tremble in its boots at the approach of a student. We should like to see terror thrown into their hearts when the word 'student' is mentioned...
...Professor Turner ad- mired was this: that by virtue of the theory of relativity it was estimated that the sun and other stars were not millions of years old, but millions of millions of years. Dr. Jeans hypothecated that our planetary system was produced by the collision or close approach of another star to the sun. Knowing the distance of the stars from each other, their speed of travel, and having an estimate of the length of life belonging-to stars and to our sun in particular, Dr. Jeans calculated the mathematical chance of the happening of such an accident...
...there are men to whom the ideals, castes, and satisfactions of business are as dust and ashes. These men claim a share in that human inheritance which Harvard once stood for: they seek those foundations of thought that reach down to the centre of life. Yet as they approach you, they find that the ground beneath their feet is in a flux. They come to escape from Pittsburgh and they find Hollywood. What will such men do when they begin to realize that you have no interest in the things they seek, and no interest in the seekers themselves, save...
...burst of delirious delight heralded the approach of the Lord Mayor's Coach. This magnificent coach, built in 1896 as a replica of the famous coach used since 1757, is made of wood, ornately carved and gilded and hung from leather straps. Drawn by six horses, driven by two powdered, white-winged coachmen and with powdered footmen hanging on behind, the gorgeous coach bore the Lord Mayor on his way to receive recognition from the Justices acting in the King's name. The Lord Mayor then returned to the Mansion House (his official residence) ; and, in the evening, the usual...
...This would necessitate the tearing down of Holyoke House, in all probability, and of the Pudding. Mr. due Fais does not believe, however, that this should stand in the way of the execution of his plan, as he would thus have convertd Holyoke street into the main avenue of approach to the University from Boston, flanked on either side by dormitories, and presenting a very attractive appearance to the stranger who comes to the University for the first time...