Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest of all dictionaries is the New English (Oxford). It took 71 years to write and publish, comprises twelve fat volumes plus a modern supplement, contains a history of each of 400,000 English words and is chiefly for scholars (cost: $125).* Nearest U. S. approach to such a dictionary was the Century (now out of print), which appeared in 1889-91 with six volumes of word histories. It has since been superseded by a two-volume edition (cost: $12). For title of best one-volume laymen's dictionary the U. S. has two first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls...
President Colby M. Chester Jr. General Foods Corp. : If some of you are interested, I suggest that you approach the problem from the standpoint of distribution...
...ning to the accession of Hitler. A War Office official, he was apparently in close touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain of the piece is old Paul von Hindenburg, who is accused of knifing Brü ning, reluctantly abandoning his favorite von Papen...
...ahead of the 1932 vote but throughout the Midwest the President was apparently slipping. For the first time Democrats began to worry about their possible losses in a nation-wide election lacking a popular national candidate to help them through. Last week's message was the nearest practical approach to put- ting Franklin D. Roosevelt personally into the field. Its high spots...
...Charles-town District Court, from this morning to Friday morning. This latest change in date brings the trial very near to the close of the court session which ends Monday. Friday morning will be occupied with the selection of the jury and it is expected that the approach of the end of, the session will hasten the conduct of the trial. No reason for the change in the date of the trial was announced...