Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN, Feb. 26--The Yale skaters after a singularly unsuccessful season approach the first Harvard game tomorrow with considerable trepidation. The Elis have won but two league games, taking Dartmouth in an overtime game 5-4 and Princeton 5-3. They dropped the return games with each of these teams, however, and never came very close to beating any of the Canadian teams...
...Burbank with Co-Pilot Joe De Cesaro (who also had flown 147 hours in a Douglas) beside him, pretty Hostess Ruth Kimmel aft taking care of the eight passengers. At 8:44, after an uneventful trip, Pilot Thompson radioed the dispatcher at Mills Field, San Francisco, that he was approaching, would land on the East-West runway. It was a clear, calm night and those at the airport soon saw the big plane droning in from the South at about 450 ft. It roared over the brightly-lighted field and out over adjacent San Francisco Bay. Two or three miles...
...chairman stated that previous attempts at social assistance had been fruitless and had demanded a remedy of "national security as the objective, and national action through the national government as the approach." In brief, he stressed that "the other levels of Government--City, County, and State--had done all they could; Federal help was necessary...
Looking on during a practice session as the team drills for this meet gives the outsider a feeling of amazement as he watches the intensive boxing between the members of the team, the serious way they approach the meet that above all else they want to win. Practice bouts of up to three rounds, roadwork of one to two miles once, sometimes twice a day, shadow boxing, socking away at the heavy or light bags, or rope work all take their place in the drive to beat Virginia...
...means all, perhaps not a majority, of Kidnapper Chang's troops had gone over to the Red State last week and strong Nanking forces under General Ku Chu-tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money had already been spent by Nanking in bribes to regain Sian that it seemed a shame to have to spend shot & shell too. In the city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed...