Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most part as unnecessary as it is annoying. There is a serious question whether the sleek and oleaginous vans of the carriage tradesman or the monstrous drays of the express companies threaten pensive scholar and woolgathering student the more. Perhaps the one, stalking in his quiet, feline approach, is the worse for life and limb, the other the more menacing to sanity as it honks and howls and rumbles and clatters. At any rate the intruders are a nuisance...
...proper eating hour; and as for five-thirty, it is a wallowing in the fleshpots and an abomination before the Lord. Briefly, the time at which the House refectories are open should be set forward, and the dinner hours set at six to seven-thirty. That would be an approach to the ideal...
...Editors Goodspeed & Smith invented a new historical-literary-religious approach. Instead of beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation. The Short Bible begins with the oldest book of the Bible, Amos, which dates from about 750 B. C. Genesis was written about 350 B. C. and comes 17th in the Smith-Goodspeed arrangement. Last are the Letters to Timothy and Titus, written by some Greek follower of St. Paul. Whole books omitted in The Short Bible are Chronicles. Song of Solomon (because non-religious). Lamentations, Obadiah, Malachi. II Peter. II and III John, Jude. Other books are severely edited. Professor...
...Background of Science" Sir James Jeans accepts wholly the point of view of that fruitful theorist Mark Hyman, who was one of the first contemporary speculators to observe that "science is a metaphor." His preliminary discussion outlines an approach to the subject on this basis, which of course involves the idea that science can never positively identify its picture of the universe with ultimate reality, that even an approximation is not certain. In the main body of the book the author emphasizes this fact while outlining the present position of scientists in regard to relativity, wave mechanics, the theory...
...foreign tongue demands a command of the language far superior to that which is demanded under most college requirements. It is not feasible to require of every student the ability to speak a foreign language, even haltingly, although a reasonably good pronunciation should be established as part of the approach toward fluent reading and for the sake of understanding the language when spoken; but there is nothing unreasonable in a requirement that imposes on every student the duty of reading with case one language beside his own and of having covered a large part of the great literature in that...