Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's most excellent majesty and most gracious sovereign, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in the Legislative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such...
...science requirement was originally ordained that no one might graduate without some familiarity with the scientific mind and the scientific approach. The regulation which sets it up explicitly confines a science course to one which has a regular laboratory, in which the conclusions of theory are constantly tried, and often abridged, by the rigors of practice. Geography 1a and 1b have a laboratory, but it is a laboratory sui generis, and only by a stretch can it be said to fulfill even the spirit of the requirement. Its work consists in the answering of a series of questions, with...
...published reports today stated that there was a controversy between the left and right wings of the Roosevelt administration, and while the is true to a certain extent, it does not describe the fundamental differences of approach and temperament involved it the Tugwell-Peek dispute. It is handly fair to say that there is a cleavage between conservatism and radicalism to the ranks of the Roosevelt administration. The President himself is still the arbiter of principles and polices, but the may also have to become an umpire a between personnel
...progressive movement in education has emphasized dealing with the whole life of the pupil. It has recognized the importance of a scientific approach to educational problems. It has urged that pupils should be stimulated to interested self-activity under conditions of reasonable freedom instead of "learning" assigned lessons. Above all it has aimed toward individual development and social adjustment, including intelligent, cooperative citizenship. These aims are now quite generally accepted, so that emphasis changes to examining the implications and practical applications of each ideal...
Were it not for the occasional entrance into the novel of the stereotyped melodrama we have seen so often on the American screen, Mr. Gilkyson's novel would approach high quality. His prose is unflowered, simple and direct. It has the matter of fact tempo of its characters. Perhaps it is the most suitable fashion in which to achieve successful presentation of middle class people, but it is not even remotely capable of the engrossing effect of the style of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Gilkyson has made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt...