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Word: approach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only about 25% above last year. Just how much grain Russia would be able to spare for bread-politics abroad depended on whether Joseph Stalin fulfilled his long standing promise to lift bread rationing at home. At any rate, on the hungry Continent, only Russia watched winter's approach without apprehension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Bread | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Billy is as assured as ever: "I approach this medium with a lot of respect. I know it's difficult. But don't forget I'm not trying to get laughs. I'm not nervous. And anyway I'm pretty good in the ducking department." On the air, he sings a more modest tune: "It wouldn't surprise me if this program wound up owing Hooper ten points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Medium | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

English One coupled with Jaeger's "Man and Society in Greek Thought" points inescapably to the need for a broad approach to Romance Literature through a course aimed specifically at non-concentrators. This need has long been conspicuous to the humanities student unacquainted with French or Spanish but nonetheless anxious for a glimpse at Latin culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing Link | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

These fundamental maxims, hinging on an avowedly non-Communist--Party-line approach to current problems and admission solely to men "whose devotion to the principles of political liberty is unqualified," have consistently brought conceived opposition during the past attempts to effect affiliation. Last night most of those opposed abstained from voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberal Union Votes to Join Forces With Students for Democratic Action, | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...public. Colonel J. Francis Taylor, deputy commander of the Air Force's All-Weather Flying Center at Wilmington, Ohio, said last week that for 14 months his outfit has flown a daily, round-trip schedule from Ohio to Maryland. Radar and G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) got the planes through safely and landed them in zero-zero soup. It was always "instrument weather" for the pilots, who kept their cockpits hooded on every flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hooded Airline | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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