Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japan was again threatening China while Italy was mobilizing 45,000 more men for possible war service against Abyssinia. Also last week Lewis Fry Richardson, D. Sc., F. R. S., principal of Paisley Technical College, showed in the British journal Nature how the approach of any two nations toward war can be reduced to mathematical equations...
...some instances the machinery of a government determines the nature of its dynamic force. To that extent the static approach can not be neglected. But if an elementary course is calculated to attract, not dissuade men from following its field, Government I must concern itself more with the living forces of the states studied...
...humbly. . . . I felt that it was a sort of call, almost like a call to the ministry. . . . I have been playing romantic roles-Roméo and Pelléas-for so many years that my views are naturally romantic. I look upon the Metropolitan with the same eager approach...
...circulating the petition, the Liberal Club made no extravagant claims. The calmness of the approach explains to a large extent its encouraging results. Direct action, however minor, combating the current tendency towards exaggerated "Americanism," is definitely valuable--more so than volumes of speeches. A petition has a dramatic appeal that literary efforts can never achieve...
These are the problems that face the new head. Improvement in quality is the imperative, and reduction in scope of activity of the Hygiene Department, the suggested lines of approach...