Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreary. When Eskimos are not busy mushing about, gobbling raw meat and candles, they sit down for a rubber of bridge. And many Eskimos play rather well, too. At Churchill, Canada's new wheat port on Hudson Bay (TIME, Sept. 14), 30 men meet regularly for jump-bids and approach-forces throughout the winter. For one of these there had to be a substitute last week; Arsene Turquetil had laid aside his cards, put on his fur cap and gone down south to Montreal. Arsene Turquetil was hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player...
...change is aimed also at improving the calibre of tutors in the department of Government. This will be effected by making it possible to assure more tutors of a teaching position, by which means it will be possible to approach the goal of having all tutors with doctors' degrees. This step has been contemplated by the department for some time and its adoption was materially aided by the Student Council report of last year advocating improved quality of tutorial work...
This eleven weeks plan represents but one phase of the effort which the Student Employment Office is making to find summer work for Harvard students. Unfortunately, advance indications as to the results are discouraging. In the business field employees are still being discharged, and the approach of the slack summer season is likely to increase rather than counteract this tendency...
...these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel that they can work out their own destinies with peace of mind, then and then alone our task will approach...
...nothing has seemed to spoil the boy or make his approach to music commonplace. When he was playing the Brahms Concerto in Minneapolis, he forgot a part of the slow movement. He made no effort to cover his-lapse as most violinists would have done. With perfect poise he stepped up to Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, asked him to start the movement over again...