Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as possible. The calming down, however, has not been carried too far; he is still bull-necked Jack, the terror among strong men. The plot, appropriately enough, deals with a steel mill, in which jack is at liberty to romp with the hunkies. It is probably the closest approach to the good old Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe's novels so popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew to marry the boss' daughter, and, incidentally, to break...
...keep out all but the first of the classes which the president-emeritus posited in his Report for 1930-31, reprinted else-where in this issue, and make of the Graduate School a large-sized Society of Fellows. Perhaps this is the ideal which the School should approach as a limit, but it is hardly a workable solution today. For lack of a complete endowment, the maintenance of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences requires that the enrollment be kept substantially at its present numbers. Exclusiveness on a grand scale is thus out of the question; instead it becomes imperative...
...With the approach of the game, the hopes that Lane and Cheek may be ready to work on Saturday grow dimmer and dimmer. Reports yesterday had it that Cheek will not even be able to be sent in at all and that it is considered advisable to keep Lane out altogether. Their Varsity letters may be voted by members of the squad, coaches, etc., and it is likely that this will be the method used in awarding them. In spite of their injuries, however, they will dress for the game...
...left to the stage. One's personality is lost in the big theatre with a large audience, for contact with the audience, which is essential to the success of a play, is so easy to lose. Sam Harris' production, 'As Thousands Cheer,' is, to my mind, the nearest approach to this desirable new formula, and I think it should be followed. The theater is a place where people should go to think as well as be amused. I rarely go to comedies or musical shows, but I think that "Show Boat," is one of the finest productions I have ever...
...statistically perfect national revival. A great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily at least, a nation united behind him as its sole ruler. And if I read...