Word: approached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of this course is to provide an opportunity for the general public to become better educated in medical knowledge, at present the average person gains most of his medical knowledge from hearsay. These lectures will enable everyone to approach an authoritative viewpoint on vital aspects of this science...
...side, so that it makes no impression to cut merely what is rooted in the path. Everywhere from all trees you find branches protruding laterally into the path. Always there is "small stuff" which has fallen across the path, which must be thrown out. Finally, as you approach timber line, you encounter scrub the stunted tough little trees which can grow only laterally and to form an interlacing network worst of all to craw! or cut through...
...death. She told how she had been converted to spiritualism by the ouija board and the inexplicable "residue" left in mediumistic trances after all cheating had been subtracted. Mrs. Austin's faith resulted from her studies of primitive American Indian customs and the behavior of animals at the approach of death...
...With the approach of Christmas there comes what, for the Student Vagabond an least has become a habit, a sine quanon of the season. This is the performance of Handel's Messiah. Without an afternoon or evening spent under the majestically beautiful power of this great work Christmas would seem to be lacking in some particular. Under its spell everything else is forgotten and from the mighty strength of the "Hallelujah Chorus," and the clear burning faith of the aria. "I knew that my Redeemer liveth," from the entire work as a whole there comes over into the listener something...
...radical difference of temper was becoming plain. Smoothly and with no violent change I passed through distrust, tolerance, respect, admiration, liking, into the hearty friendship--I might say the love--which makes it a delight to work with you now, whether in opposition or alliance, Probably we shall always approach subjects from opposite sides. You began in chemistry, I in theology. But nothing can touch my deep affection for you or my gratitude to the man who more than any other shows me perpetually how to rely on the Eternal for personal strength...