Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has long been a belief that Dan can recognize different people by their footsteps as they approach him, but he says such a rumor is false. However, he can hear people stop in front of him to buy papers and is able to hand them the one they ask for. His papers and he knows just where to reach to get each...
...With the approach of the Yale game each November, the office of the H. A. A. is snowed in under countless applications for tickets. Inevitable wails of dismay arise from patrons banished to the no man's land behind the goalposts to plague Mr. Bingham and his staff who, as the saying goes, can do nothing about...
Meteorological cataclysms were the terror of Blennerhassett's life. At the approach of thunderstorms, he bolted all the windows, buried himself in bed. Consequently, he built his island home of wood "to resist earthquakes." A noble edifice with two spacious wings, its lawns and gardens were as fine as any in England. Inside, "foreign frescoes colored the ceilings, the walls were hung with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor...
...peak. Peter the Great imported Western dances. Catherine did more, and so did her mad son Paul. Thereafter a national ballet school flourished in Russia. The Classicist, Petipa, trained all his dancers until they had superlative technique. Isadora Duncan had an influence because of her free approach to music, her dominating personality. Michael Fokine appeared on the Russian scene with his own liberated ideas, introducing the ballets with which Sergei Diaghilev paved his way throughout the Western world...
...closer to Earth, must eventually be broken up by Earth's gravitation. One of Jupiter's little satellites, for example, is so close to that big planet's gravitational "danger zone" that it is egg-shaped. Sir James made it clear last week that the lunar approach will be no harmless display for earthlings...