Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proof to the contrary, that materials were in the course of shipment to Turkey; that engineers on the spot " were working under extra pressure to make up for the regrettable delays arising from the internal controversies which have now ended; " that "full activities" are impossible owing to the approach of Winter...
...Harvard, where chapel is anything but compulsory, such a program would approach the ridiculous. If the most desirable thing were to get a large congregation every morning, the obvious and least objectionable method would be compulsion. Dressing up a sermon to look like a lecture, or brazenly substituting timely-topic talks would spoil chapel for those who honestly want a religious service; and the others who might go could certainly not deceive themselves into thinking that they were going to a chapel. It would be absurd to turn the morning service into a forum and delight in the multitudes...
...Thus the approach of the Presidential election finds murder already in the air; the future is as uncertain as it is portentous...
...Montreal Mr. George burst into golf. A correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor saw him make three perfect shots-a long, straight drive, a magnificent approach and a superb and final putt. Moved by sheer admiration the correspondent approached...
...signing of the Big Three Agreement between three of the most prominent universities of the country. It is tantamount to implying that the agreement is purely for outside consumption, and that the officials of the signatory college, all men of established probity, are conniving at what would very nearly approach a conspiracy to deceive...