Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing that brought farm relief to the fore was the approach of the fall election, which is beginning to give some Congressmen cold feet. The talk has got about in Washington that it was dissatisfaction of the farmers rather than dissatisfaction of the anti-World-Courters which defeated Senator McKinley in the Illinois primary recently. Besides, the Administration nodded to Congress, "Go ahead with farm bills if you don't go too far." So Mr. Haugen and his colleagues (there are 13 Republicans and 9 Democrats on the Committee on Agriculture) set to work in earnest to turn...
Churchill. The approach of the crisis synchronized with the great annual politico-business event of the British Government?the presentation of the budget to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston Churchill stepped up manfully to meet his great occasion...
...clock this morning, I shall approach the first of my elevations, and enter the old portal of Harvard 2, to hear Professor Yeomans lecture in Government 19b upon the "due process" clause of the law as it effects the deprivation of property...
...great beauties of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard that its personnel makes possible a comprehensive approach to the problems a comprehensive approach to the problems of philosophy. This is true in regard to the subject matter involved and the manner in which it is presented. One may study as intensively as he likes any particular branch of philosophy, or his interests may go far afield to India under the guidance of Prof. Woods, or to China with Dr. Mei. With so diverse a possibility of stimulus it would be remarkable if one's intellectual curiosity were not aroused...
Still these and their political overflow have a rather small place in the undergraduate's platform of action. They are of the world beyond. And, while it would be disastrous to neglect the approach of that world, it would be fatuous to desert more impinging problems for it. If youth revolt and student reform are desirable, they are desirable where student comprehension is sufficient to insure both the sanity of new propositions and the discovery of effective reforming methods. It is the latter, attained through the former that will make college graduates fruitful innovators after college years...