Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...involved, the enemy must come from the sea in some direction; and, as stated above, the Navy cannot afford to wait in our harbors until the enemy arrives, but must go out to meet him, to occupy the ports or places on his probable line of approach, etc. To do this, the Navy must not only have suitable ressels to accompany the fighting vessels to carry fuel, ammunition and supplies, but there must be suitable vessels to transport troops to hold bases or points on the lines of communication...
...their first college examinations approach, Freshmen and transfer students especially find themselves in varying degrees of curiosity or suspense. Those who fared none too well at the November hours have cause for alarm; those who scraped through with the conventional C--may be unaware that their position is almost as precarious. Many have no idea of how best to prepare for an examination: how to correlate the work of a course, to plan their reviewing, or to combine their lecture notes with their reading...
...another field of education, the struggle has taken the opposite direction. The degree "Master of Business Administration" had been considered not worth the effort to earn. The only approach to a business career was to begin at the beginning and work up. Carnegie and Rockefeller were pointed out as poor boys who, by sheer ability and enthuslasm, had reached the heights of business success. But recently, -especially since the introduction of the "case system" of teaching in the Harvard Business School three years ago,-the regard of business executives for postgraduate training has increased rapidly; and a short time...
Profound believers in Santa Claus may possibly attribute Bonar Law's surprising generosity to the approach of Christmas. His real reasons, however, are certainly not altruistic. First of all the offer is accompanied by the hitch that France content herself with a reparation of only fifteen to twenty billion marks, a decided fall from per present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey...
...Letters of Franklin K. Lane offer three points of approach, none of which can be overlooked, all of which are interesting. Letters as such, if they are looked upon from the standpoint of literary interest are apt to prove disappointing, though not necessarily so. As a running commentary on the life and times of a certain period, the letters of one man are often inadequate, too close to affairs, and subject to the prejudices of the times. But it is as showing a remarkable and possibly great personality at first hand that a volume of collected letters such as those...