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Word: approach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult to decide which is grossest: the vapidity of the introductory apologia; the cant of the individual critiques; or (he high-handed inanity of the whole approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Wilfred Bloomberg, instructor in neurology at the Medical School, has developed a new approach to the curing of alcoholism through the use of the drug benzedrine, which acts as a substitute for alcohol while the personality defect that caused the patient to become addicted to drink is corrected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...school adequately to continue to perform this function, broadening of its approach to legal issues and of the content of its curriculum is essential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broader Set of Studies Vital to School, States Landis Report | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

Wilder has been noted for his experimentation with techniques of expression; his prize winning play, "Our Town," was produced without scenery. Wilder explained this unusual approach as an attempt to re-enlist the imaginative collaboration of the audience by reducing the scenery to mere symbol, and a frank underscoring of the theatre as an illusion and a make believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Playwright, Says Drama Club Had 'Verve' in Past | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

These militarists pro tem were none other than Janizaries Tommy Corcoran, Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams. Their nearest approach to a professional consultant was Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, who likes to ignore generals. Nor was aggressive Mr. Johnson loath to leave out Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, who has been making cause with the snubbed general against his nominal assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rearmament v. Balderdash | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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