Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily just before the end of the half-year, and the course concludes with the monuments of the Age of Constantine. Because Professor Chase is primarily an archaeologist, the approach to the important monuments is archaelogical rather than aesthetic; the subject matter is seldom pedantic, and is continually enlivened with mythological and anecdotal detail...
...they measure up to a special expectation. In all but one instance, these men, exceptional as their records are, have been subjected to the older sort of graduate work. Particular conditions of study planned for the Fellows must have a changing influence on their methods of approach, if the Society is to take shape as something more than a glorified Graduate School, with advantages chiefly visceral and social...
...Shortly afterward I saw lights flash on the water. I changed my course to approach the light and soon heard men hailing me from the water. I stopped the ship, turned on all lights, lowered boats and put life boats over the sides. I saw mattresses and wreckage and pulled one mat over the side of the boat. We got four men. I saw some men sink before we could get to them. After this no more men were found...
...almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.* Though every dictionary is more of a Who's Who of words than a supreme court of language, it is the ambition of every lexicographer to be the final arbiter. Generally acknowledged by scholars to be the nearest approach so far to supreme authority is the great ten-volume Oxford English Dictionary, finally "completed" (only dead-language dictionaries can ever be completed...
...House tradition should grow, like a fungus, unseen till it burst forth in all its prime and splendor. But whether this is true, or whether some other line of attack is better, it seems certain that the end cannot be attained by Bulletins and the like. They are an approach far too obvious for the modern taste; they consume valuable time, and are close to uselessness...