Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys, as they must be affectionately called, approach the task of demolishing a husky, tall section of wall. It is part of the once proud structure opposite Phillips Brooks House, and towering fragment of loose bricks as it is, it stands stark and alone, the very last piece of Hemenway's walls. The boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent...
...ship full of passengers down on Pittsburgh's all-paved airport solely by instruments-and thus claimed to have made the first commercial blind landing. There are Army, Navy and airline blind landing systems. The one used in this case is called "Air-Track," a radio-guided approach system designed to standardize and safeguard all landings, but still awaiting Bureau of Air Commerce approval for all weathers...
...college publications are over-cautious in their approach, on the other hand, if they are loath to expose existing evils or to oppose their college in matters of policy, they again lose their value. Indeed this failing, this trend toward the inconsequential, is all too manifest in contemporary college journalism...
...teeming population was tripled. To feed and clothe the visiting horde tons of mutton and beef were roasted and distributed in the city parks, untold galabiahs, the long cotton nightshirts which are the chief garments of the Egyptian fellaheen, were given away. Considering the excitement with which Egyptians approach such a simple problem as boarding a street car, it was a triumph for Cairo's police and details of the Egyptian Army that only 400 people fell from balconies, were trampled to death, pushed under cars, into the Nile, or otherwise injured...
...fair practice code, o-t-c dealers now are obliged to give customers all pertinent information on any deal. But it is manifestly impossible for SEC to keep tabs on all firms to see that this is done. Nearest approach, decided Bill Douglas, was to foster the already substantial trend for o-t-c dealers to band together into associations on a geographical basis. The associations would be expected to police themselves, but if they failed, SEC would have the same disciplinary powers over them that it now has over the exchanges-i.e., to suspend any offending dealer...