Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene of the operations, Secretary Swanson told newshawks, would be the Puget Sound-Alaska-Hawaii "triangle." Contrary to pacifists' beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available...
...German attack Actually the $150,000,000 worth of steel and concrete forts are "fence-posts," not a chain. This week a horde of French and Moroccan troops is stringing the fence between the posts digging trenches from fort to fort, stringing barbed wire, testing sirens which at the approach of Germans, would scream so loudly that French villagers could hear them for a distance of seven miles and start to evacuate...
...crisis, which may force the British into a more vigorous stand, coupled with a possible change in American policy (foreshadowed by some of Mr. Roosevelt's statements and given concrete expression in the proposed Senate resolutions) will perhaps cause the League of Nations, in its present truncated form, to approach more nearly to Woodrow Wilson's original conception...
Marriage into Toscanini's family seems to have helped Horowitz to a more profound approach to music. But the way was hard. When he first met the great conductor he was so awed that he hunched in a corner all evening and was scolded by his friends for sulking. He married the Maestro's daughter Wanda in 1933. Next year Pianist Horowitz will remain in Europe for a tour that is already solidly booked...
Chamberlain has not the ability to narrate the story with sufficient life to make the book interesting for its many live situations, but he has devoted much time to the preparation of his material. It is unfortunate that he has not restricted himself to Osborne's approach to what is still a live situation and allowed a clear view of the work remaining to be done...