Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Descartes and Newton to a large extent laid the foundation of our so-called higher mathematics. So revolutionary were the mathematical achievements that their contemporaries in trying to follow their mathematics quite overlooked the philosophical and physical approach which their work permitted and, indeed, invited and handed down their abstractions rather than their practicalities...
...four for a 149; Von Elm, a stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from cup. He studied the green, tapped the ball with the air of a man accustomed to miracles, watched it drop for another birdie, another...
...with her aid, makes $40,000 a year as teacher, author, and editor of the Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point in the Culbertson "approach-forcing system" is a two-bid to show unusual strength and to signify that partner, regardless of the merit of his own hand, must keep the bidding open. So successful was the Culbertson system when used by average U. S. bridge players that his book outsold the bridge works of Work...
Freight Rates. Only by a blanket percentage increase in all freight rates for all roads as was done in 1914, 1917 and 1920 can the carriers obtain the necessary relief, they said. Joint water-&-rail rates and existing differentials would be maintained. The Commission, however, was asked to approach the question not from the rate angle, necessitating protracted hearings on the "reasonableness" of each proposal, but from the broader revenue angle as an emergency step for financial relief...
...McClintic-Marshall, Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s new subsidiary, the job of constructing the superstructure for San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Close behind was Columbia Steel, United States Steel Corp.'s subsidiary, whose bid was $182,000 higher. For the construction of the approach spans, Columbia Steel's winning bid of $996.000 was $97,400 under McClintic-Marshall...