Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...internationalism. Special emphasis is placed upon the importance of the socialization of science, of the humanizing of industry, of the trusting of intelligence, and the necessity of philosophical reconstruction. The book is concluded with a chapter on the ethical outlook; giving the mental habits necessary for the new approach to the important problems suggested by Mr. Wiggam...
Peacemaker Breasted. Efforts were made to approach a settlement between the Egyptian Government, on the one hand, and the Countess Carnarvon and Howard Carter, on the other, in the dispute (TiME, Feb. 25 et seq.), over TutankhAmen's tomb. Dr. James Henry Breasted, distinguished American archeologist and historian, who has been in Egypt all Winter, along with many other savants, agreed to act as mediator and started negotiations, but without much optimism. Dr. Breasted, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, is internationally respected as one of the two or three...
...Meteorology in the University, is authority for the statement that yesterday was the anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888, when a gale piled snow which had fallen for 24 hours in drifts ranging in depth from 30 to 40 feet. For a time yesterday's storm threatened to approach the havoc wrought by the earlier blizzard, but a comparatively high temperature prevented this...
...unmeasurable success of the Debating Union gives rise to the hope that it may definitely success in introducing more spontaneous and informal discussion. The plans for liberalization of membership recently adopted are a first step. With the approach of Presidential elections and the consequent stimulus to argument the times favor a growth of interest; the arrangement of a series of pertinent topics for debate and a program of interesting speakers in perhaps all that is necessary for complete acclimatization of the Oxford institution...
...south entrance of Memorial, facing Cambridge Street, will be the only one open during the dance. Automobiles will approach it from East to West and may be parked around the Delta. The ladies' coat room is in the right after entering, while the men may check their things at the farther end of the transept. The patronesses will receive at the left of the centre entrance to the main hall...