Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chancelleries of Europe this was assumed to be the nearest approach to a public statement last week of what His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have in mind by their current but undefined proposal to "reform the League...
...Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas Building which will become a permanent historical building. Other not-so-novelties include a music amphitheatre, buildings of animal husbandry, poultry...
Nanda Devi lies in a region difficult of approach in the headwaters of the Ganges. The mountain itself is technically hard, being of the precipitous Materhorn type and rising sharply from a plateau 15,000 feet in elevation...
...Roosevelt good-nabor policy represents the first enlightened approach to Latin American diplomacy in over two centuries. Under that policy, the United States has declined to intervene in internicine affairs and has respected the political autonomy of its Caribbean neighbors. Action by the State Department in the Chaco war and in the Machado fiasco was taken only after careful consultation with the leading powers of the southern hemisphere. The Rooseveltian repudiation of the Socony-United Fruit-Chase National policies of Hoover and Coolidge has won favor throughout Hispanic America. It has paved the way for the extremely lucrative reciprocal tariff...
...Haven, Yale copy-catted to no effect. But in Rochester, N. Y. the undergraduates staged a real riot. Chicago was insulted when Oscar made withering remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics...