Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach and blunts his touch on the smooth sides of several dozen random cliches. Like the mantelpiece sculpture of Socrates that turns up in the second act, the result is a hollow bust...
...from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...
Valley Christian's pastor has a direct, put-up-or-shut-up banker's approach to most problems. At the church's annual fund-raising he says: "Give what you think this church is worth to you. If you think it's worth a dime, don't let anybody talk you into giving a dollar...
Advertising men treated each other to some unusually frank talk about their trade last week. At the annual eastern meeting of the American Association of Advertising Agencies in Manhattan, the scientific approach" to consumer resistance took the worst pasting...
...more successful than those of insurance companies and savings banks, largely because there are comparatively few legal restrictions on university investments. The result is that Harvard is able to hold more than half its funds in securities of American corporations, an amount which insurance companies and savings banks cannot approach. It is particularly true, therefore, as a recent survey concludes, that the "growth and prosperity of American industry is of great benefit and importance to universities." Harvard's growing holdings in common stocks and Claflin's statement concerning the rising returns from these holdings and the consequent increase in favorable...