Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be measurably facilitated if they were handled by an executive whose office would resemble that of a clearing house and whose power would be advisory. Through such an individual, Professors could make known the reading requirements of their various courses: they would not be force, as now, to approach, or to be approached by, the librarians of each of the Houses. Further, much needless red-tape and bookkeeping could be avoided if orders were placed through a central office. This executive could advise House librarians as to the prices which they should pay for books, could...
...crisis like this all estimates need to be modified from one minute to the next. . . . The pursuit of a rigorous balance is the pursuit of a mirage. . . . If the violence of the remedy aggravates the ill, what will become of your rigid balance? There is nothing to do but approach a balance, and certainly meanwhile one must borrow...
...this took 20 minutes. Police, who must have seen the mob of 200 approach, arrived tardily, arrested 138. "We strikers acted in a gentlemanly manner as long as possible," said a strikers' spokesman. "We only decided to act when the Singer firm hired thugs as guards...
...Playwright Coward, War is anathema. The 'closest approach his comedies make to profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by a young ghost who returns from Flanders. The second, Cavalcade, is a tragic cyclorama which begins with the Boer War and ends in 1930 with the hope that "this country of ours may find dignity, greatness, and peace again." Here was something more than the world dared to expect from...
...infinite credit, the authoress has succeeded in endowing her pages with intense, at times terrible, vitality. To be sure, there are none of the tricks which make for artful smooth writing. Rather, her approach is direct, blunt, similar one often remarks, to that of an oral narrator. But her character analysis and descriptive power are nonetheless shrewd, firm, displaying a startling insight...