Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standard, it would mean we were no longer free to adapt our policy," Mr. Chamberlain suavely told the Mansion House banqueters. Earlier in the day, before the Lord Mayor's wines had mellowed his mood, the Chancellor had said harshly what he really meant, "even the most tentative approach to stabilization is quite unthinkable...
Whereas the discussion in study groups last year were largely of a theeretical nature, the Society plans this year, as a partial result of the present world crisis, to organize study groups which will approach the question of peace from a more practical point of view, it was explained by Robert T. Bentley, librarian...
...sheriff found himself unable to make the arrest. The entire Polish community of Scotch Plains joined the conspiracy to warn Crempa of the approach of the sheriff's officers. The sheriff disguised his men as a surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife...
...partial result of the present world crisis, the Peace Society plans to organize this year three study groups which will approach the question of peace from a practical point of view. These three groups will study respectively (1) democratic methods for supporting national peace policies; (2) American neutrality, past and present; and (3) the League of Nations and International diplomatic machinery...
...scholarship of that day and the picturesque life of the German student. Germany was then the place to go to study English, although the work was largely philological and abstruse. He draws fascinating portraits of some of his instructors and colleagues there. Consistently an upholder of the liberal, appreciative approach to literature at Harvard Perry confesses that the discipline of sheer grinding on etymological facts and tables was a tonic...