Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary meeting of the committee resulted in the formulation of an outline of procedure by which the Phillips Brooks House might govern its action. One of the first possibilities on the program made out by the group is that of sponsoring and conducting a charity ball. The committee will approach Boston hostels with a view to obtaining the use gratis of a ballroom and also will seek to obtain free of charge the services of an orchestra...
Recently, according to Dutch Court gossips last week, the Crown Princess with three unmarried ladies-in-waiting was discreetly smoking in her own drawing room when sounds from the antechamber indicated unmistakably the imminent approach of Majesty...
...Antonio Peak, 22 mi. away, determined that light travels 186,284 mi. per sec. Later he was convinced that he might have made an error of 18.62 mi. per sec. because of earth movements. This time he has prepared a mile-long vacuum tube which will more nearly approach the conditions through which light travels...
...Clergy Club of New York & Neighborhood, an organization of miscellaneous Protestant doctrinaires, assembled to protest. Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Presbyterian, the Club's founder, spoke harshly: "Bishop Manning . . . [has] taken the wrong club out of his bag for an approach to the consecration of a co-operative bishop suffragan, or played an ineffective drive in his deliverance on the polity and program of the church needed...
...With the approach of two one-day holidays--Armistice Day (November 11) and Thanksgiving (November 27)--and of the Yale football game (November 22), it seems advisable to make clear the attitude of the Dean's Office in regard to cuts before and after these days...