Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temple, cherry blossoms, a dancing geisha, a beautiful shrine, outriders heralding the Emperor's approach, all lost their beauty and romance through being viewed across a sea of dripping noses...
Africa Speaks (Columbia). In spite of the many patient and enthusiastic photographers who have trundled through Africa, no definite cinema of the jungle has yet been made. Probably the nearest approach to such a picture would be a composite of the best shots of such good travelogs as this?jungle newsreels which have taken a tremendous amount of time, skill and money to make, but which are inevitably dull for long stretches. Sequences from Africa Speaks which would qualify for inclusion: a swarm of locusts darkening the skies, covering the ground six inches deep, dispersing a herd of gnu, eating...
...give just such an examination for those who care to take it. The results are then to be checked with those of the examination taken at the end of the course, and if they are found to tally fairly closely, within ten points for instance, Professor Cole will approach the Administration with the suggestion that in the future a successful grade in some such preliminary examination may entitle the student to full credit for the course and allow him to proceed to other and more profitable pursuits...
...company's 10-year agency contract with the Swedish Match Co. expires December 31, 1930." No surprise was this statement for in December 1928, Ivar Kreuger's $350,000,000 Swedish Match Trust served formal notice upon Diamond that the agreement would not be extended. Yet the approach of the actual termination has made more vivid the question of who will soon be supplying the U. S. with strike-on-the-box matches.* Diamond has made a few, hints it may make more under favorable conditions. Herr Kreuger in his annual report spoke of planning to make, matches...
...Profile" (New Yorker) the New Orleanian presented a biographical sketch called a "Closeup." First subject: Rabbi Louis Binstock, past president of the Rotary Club, but "Rabbi, not Babbitt," "most popular purveyor of religion in New Orleans," whose Friday-night talks on books and such are "the nearest approach to culture this city boasts...