Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approach of Masonic Congressmen by Cuban Masons...
Reason for the Ambrose's name and existence: a fighting Irish wharf-&-dry-dock man of Manhattan named John Wolfe Ambrose harangued for 18 years to get Congress to dredge the approach to New York Harbor...
...prelude to every great movement come the uneasy rumblings of an awakening public. And now with the approach of the Christmas season and the turn of the year, the question arises if during the past months there has not again been felt some such restless stirrings...
...turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious to her surroundings and it was possible to approach sufficiently near to take pictures...
...With the approach of these forces, a hush fell over Haiti and quiet was temporarily restored. But from Congress came a menacing rumble as critics of U. S. policy in the Caribbean gathered for a new attack...