Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace and security of the Harvard Yard and its inmates, whose safety and quiet are guaranteed by the daily ritual of the closing of the gates at sundown. Every evening at six o'clock sharp the clang of the iron protals on Massachusetts Avenue cuts off Virtually all approach to the buildings from that flank except from the vicinity of Boylston Hall...
...illegalities the Institute offers certain opportunities for effecting desirable results," said the Judge. "In most of their activities, however, they [Institute members] have . . . gone much further than was necessary to accomplish their end. . . . The record has revealed a striking absence of effort on the defendants' part to approach their solution in a truly disinterested and constructive spirit. Too often they have disregarded the true facts and the interests of distributors and consumers. . . . They have contended that their guiding motive has been the elimination of secret discrimination, fraud and waste. ... It is clear that their dominant aim was to preserve...
...Wrigley, Beech-Nut, and American Chicle, which together make about 95% of all the gum chewed in the U. S., that clause is no burden. National advertising has built up their consumer demand. But when Tom Huston's salesmen approach a retailer with an unknown brand like Julep the retailer wants a money-back agreement in case the gum does not sell. Tom Huston says that none of his 40,000 retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without...
...defense is insufficient for the national safety. Rather it is that a Treaty-strength navy will place us in a favorable bargaining position at the 1935 Naval Conference. The success of the Washington Conference should have proved that practical agreements on naval disarmament are more often reached when nations approach the diplomatic tete-a-tetes with actual evidence of disarmament as well as desire for it. Demanding smaller navies on one hand and building larger ones with the other, our government will end up by leading another armament race. The United States, because of its comparative security, is peculiarly fitted...
...write of our colonial beginnings" is to determine the characters and ideas of the founders in relation to those which were influencing England at that same time. Realizing that little that took place in America at that time "can be construed as American" he writes to give "an unbiased approach to the colonies from the standpoint of their origin...