Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent statement to the CRIMSON, Dean Baker of the Business School emphasizes the fact that the institution does not train men in the practical side of business. Its fifty odd courses aim rather to give a fundamental approach to business problems which will help an individual in whatever branch he takes...
...shadowy memories, the farewell declaration of Cord Hull will come as manna in a barren country. On leaving American shores for Uruguay, gem of South America, he stated that "common interests, similar problems, and mutual devotion to the freedom offered by democratic forms of government support us as we approach the problems" of the Pan-American Conference--in short, the old formula which spawns every year a new school of invincible pow-wows...
...mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal it to get on the jury and send those coons to the electric chair," more were in favor of the approach direct, without the intervention of any court. And so it runs; of the four hundred interviewed not one expressed any desire for a legitimate and judicious disposition of the issues involved...
...always cheerful, in spite of the pressure which a hurried group puts often upon them. They are to be lauded as much for their superiority over the waitresses in the Houses and the waiters in the Square as for their intrinsic worth; in short, they are the nearest approach in the University to absolute perfection, and the only encouragement after an evening of study...
With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...