Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are vast commercial possibilities for the commercial firm that will approach the problems of China from an appreciative point of view and will work honestly and fairly for a cooperative spirit. The Chinese are as quick to appreciative such an attitude as they are to suspect ulterior motives...
...notable feature in the production if its filmsiness had not destroyed all the illusion And the dawn which Mr. Belasco made creep up imperceptibly, "came up like thunder", if not more so. In contrast with this hasty dawn, the thunderstorm in act two was realistic in its slow approach...
...retiring were these men, that not until very recently have their discoveries been made public. Fifty planes were to approach Berlin from all directions, guiding aerial torpedoes which would continue to the city while the pilots returned to their own lines. Blowing up Berlin was undoubtedly the conception of a high mind at an inspired moment. Well may the rest of humanity wonder why such an idea never occurred to anybody else during the war; it is thus with all inventions. When once suggested, they look obvious. Often, to be sure, an inspiration comes to two separate men simultaneously...
...seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...
Phillips proved strongest on the greens and at approach shots, where his accuracy was superior to that of his opponent. At the end of the first 18 holes, played in the morning, he was ahead 6 up, and though showed some brilliant work in the afternoon, turning "eagles" on the twenty-fourth and holes, his game proved and he was unable to overcome his rival's lead...