Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Governor Murphy: "To the solution of these problems Archbishop Mooney brings a world of wisdom, of kindly understanding and of farseeing vision. I rejoice in the thought of the great good that a shepherd of his spiritual content can do for the people in encouraging the Christian approach to their problems...
Oath at 104°. Up to last week King Farouk's nearest approach to military rank was as Egypt's Chief Boy Scout. In this capacity he recently keynoted: "Young men and young women of Egypt. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, it is our task to bring our bodies into subjugation to our wills!" Straight from Boy Scouthood last week His Majesty was promoted to Field Marshal. He donned a uniform of red, white and green, grasped the baton of Field Marshal in lieu of a sceptre, and whirled off in his coach, flanked by barefoot native runners...
...their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into the air, strike the screen, fall into the tank. Turkeys are known to be great eaters of grasshoppers but the Department of Agriculture declared last week that even if all the turkeys in the U. S. were concentrated in North and South Dakota...
...peak hour"; Fc=ditto on Cross St.;Lm=left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...
...George VI's personal osteopath was to make them a speech and thus put a royal gloss on their rising profession. Dr. W. Kelman Macdonald of Edinburgh, who was the American Osteopathic Association's chief guest, does not belong to the King's medical household. Nearest approach to an osteopath in that prize group of British doctors is the Manipulative Surgeon to the King Sir Morton Smart...