Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the snow piles up 18 inches under foot and the wind howls incessantly with almost gale-like velocity, what explanation has the Weather Bureau to offer? Why has this been the most severe winter in years? Is it a sign of the approach of another ice ago or merely an accident which may be expected periodically...
...longs to paint portraits and Do Fine Things is as much a stage character as the comedian who longs to play Hamlet. What makes Cartoonist Cady's non-commercial work easier to take than the arty strivings of most of his competitors is the simplicity of his approach. He is not the least bothered by surrealism. Communism, psychoanalysis or the plight of NRA. When he wants to paint the harbor of Rockport or the portrait of a nun he does it as naturally as he would a flopsy-mopsy bunny...
...method of instruction or the general approach to the subject at Harvard differed sufficiently from that used in preparatory schools, there might be some reason for requiring men who have already had their quota of science in school to take a course in college. In some other fields this is the case. But the elementary science courses differ from school courses only in being slightly more intensive...
...explanation that I have concerned myself in "Man vs. Ape." To that end, much of the book has been devoted to a code, and the conclusion of my book is the conclusion of the code. Obviously such a book cannot be quickly read, digested, or judged; the kind of approach which it demands is the kind of approach which Harvard men, above all, should have. The process of obtaining it will prepare the men of Harvard to preach the gospel of truth in the four corners of the earth. Phillip Francis Samuels...
...unexpected change of Chief Justice Hughes' heart produced two effects: it gave the newspapers an approach to the constitutionality of the NRA which was personal and striking, and it obscured the exact measure of the progress which the Minnesota mortgage decision has marked out. Before any talk of "liberals" and "conservatives" can be valid, before any real prophesies on Roosevelt's impact with the court can be enunciated, it will be necessary to examine the text of the Minnesota law and the grounds upon which the Supreme Court supported...