Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much more than 100 years ago, my own great-grandfather owned a farm in Harlem close to the Manhattan approach to this bridge. . . . In the older days, there was no need for a great structure connecting Long Island and Manhattan and the mainland...
...conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission and proposes to carry it out according to the principles of the League Covenant...
Author Carmer's approach to Northern New York is suggested by the romantic legend that gives his book its title. Sometimes dwellers there hear a sound of distant drumbeats. Are they made by the ghost of an English officer executed during the Revolution? Are they echoes of the death drums of the Senecas? In this fertile field of supernaturalism mystics, fanatics, founders of religious faiths and Utopian colonies have long bred in the Empire State's northern hills. Author Carmer says that the roar of the cities overwhelms the sound of the drum, which may be interpreted...
...miles has always been a hoodoo for U. S. runners. Best time ever made outdoors by a U. S. runner at two miles was 9:10.6 made by Lash in the Drake Relays last April. That he was likely to break his own mark, let alone approach Nurmi's, was a possibility which appeared so remote to sportswriters last week that none of them bothered to mention it in their predictions. Lash had run in the East before, never matched his Midwest form...
...hierarchy of contemporary U. S. poets, Stephen Vincent Benét stands somewhat ambiguously as a comparatively young (37) singer whose heavily emotional approach to national concerns is slightly preWar, like his verse forms. A singularly unpredictable performer, he has been able to turn from so broad a project as his John Brown's Body to slapdash popular verses in the worst tradition of James Whitcomb Riley. In Burning City the contradictory aspects of his talent are laid out as if for analysis and dissection...