Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These accomplishments were the nearest approach yet to the great dream of free world trade, long plugged by Cotton Millionaire Will Clayton, who resigned last month as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. But despite the Geneva agreements, Will Clayton's dream was still little more than a dream...
...Manchuria outnumbered Nationalist forces clung to a few encircled cities, including Changchun and Mukden; Ying-pan, an approach to the strategic Fushun coal center, was besieged. The rest of Manchuria was in Communist hands. Nationalist losses had been heavy...
...perennial question in New Haven this season has centered about fullback Levi Jackson, who to date has failed to approach his 1946 form. Against the Orange and Black he carried the ball only once-that time for nine yards and a first down- and was otherwise restricted only to punting and defensive chores. There is a growing sentiment that this is his week, and the 45,000 Yale partisans that will be on hand tomorrow are praying for just that. The hale and hearty section of the backfield corps consists of quarterback Tex Furse, who has completed...
...philanderings--occupies the stage at all times; hence there is none of the diffusion of energy that mars the treatment of Solon Barnes and his splintering family in "The Bulwark." Until his death, Cowperwood carries the novel, and although his machinations with the control of the London "underground" approach fantasy, the weight of his personality inevitably overrides the reader's doubts. It is this same brutal personal force which stands Cowperwood by himself as the most suavely terrifying example of the business type in American literature...
What is needed is a semosterly course to serve as a compliment to Humanities 12a--"Great Artist." This course should concern itself not only with great composers and musical works of the past, but should attempt to approach music from a more modern view, analyzing it as an outpouring of the emotions and social terminant. Also, it should strive to link up music with the other humanistic fields of art and literature. It should try to teach some understanding of the principles of the main forms and modes of musical expression, such as the sonata and symphony. By making...