Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world struggle by Negroes against Italy's white blackshirts. "The African masses look to the Negro people and toilers in America to give support and leadership in the fight [of Abyssinia] against imperialism," he manifestoed in The Negro Liberator. "Demand hands off Abyssinia." If correspondents who sought to approach His Majesty Power of Trinity in blistering Addis-Ababa last week expected to hear him exclaim "I is right glad to see you all ! Now I is gwine tell you how this all is" they were abysmally mistaken. The sharp-featured, politically cunning ruler of between five and ten million...
...Great Britain's industrial villages in in the thirties and forties of the last century--the weavers are pitted against the owners and it is a battle fought with true Scottish persistence and doggedness. The day is saved for the weavers when they are warned of the militia's approach by the actions of the mysterious gypsy maid, Babbie, who escapes after duping the little minister not only into aiding her but into falling in love with her. Yielding to none of their usual temptations, the directors have kept this love within the bounds of sincere purity which were...
...matter of methods in legal training. If a lawyer in presenting a case and a judge in passing judgment on it, must obey the monistic theory now so favorably regarded, it is doubtful whether the case-system and the methods which it implies, is a satisfactory medium of approach...
...School, is that modern law is based not so much upon legal technicalities, as upon political, social, and economic considerations. The mere addition of courses in sociology, economics, and government to the curriculum would not meet the problem. It is a change in the basic method of approach--a change from a standardized to an individualized concept of each case--that must be adopted if the Harvard Law School is to retain its supremacy...
What would be of more value to the college than a motorized snow-sweeper or an open-air parking space at $6.00 per month would be a pamphlet giving a fairly detailed, complete and specific listing of the reading covered in the course, and of the method of approach. Lest the faculty be too alarmed by fears of regimentation, let it be said that this list need not be in the nature of a promise nor even of a threat which their consciences or University Hall would drive them to abide by. To be sure, some courses, such as History...