Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Music 51 as a course so much as of its position in the concentration program. Members of the department look upon the harmony courses as a necessary evil, comparing them with the equally distasteful elementary science courses. This comparison betrays the inclination so prevalent at Harvard to approach music in a scientific manner. This may be the soundest method in the long view, but pedagogically, it is rather more doubtful. After a year of music study essentially divorced from music itself, the student may become disillusioned with music as a formal study. The technical approach, through Music 51, tends toward...
...little man turned with my approach, and at the question smiled...
...rocket-plane built by North American Aviation, Inc. is the second approach. It will probably make its first flight to the edge of space in less than a year. Made of stainless steel to resist heat, it is a stubby-winged airplane only 50 ft. long, weighing about 33,000 Ibs. when fully fueled. Its single rocket engine has 60,000 Ibs. of thrust and is capable of lifting it off the ground like a ballistic missile...
...above Wendover Air Force Base, Utah by a specially adapted B-52. As soon as it cuts loose with its rocket engine roaring, the pilot will head it on a steep trajectory like a ballistic missile. In 30 to 40 seconds, if all goes well, it will approach Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at an altitude of 100,000 ft. From this point it will be, as the airplane people say, "beyond the envelope of knowledge," flying higher and faster than a manned aircraft has ever flown...
...Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to supervise all advertising claims, it, too, came in for its share of criticism. The Congressmen accused FTC of failing "to approach the problems of false and misleading advertising with vigor and diligence," called its actions "weak and tardy." In answer, the FTC said that it had scheduled a conference of cigarette manufacturers to develop uniform standards for testing cigarettes...