Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either as standard or extra equipment. While most of these systems are merely conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given...
Over the long run the scarcity of men of the caliber of Dean Matthews has been only too obvious. In the past few years Dean Sperry has followed two contradictory lines of approach; he has gone far and wide in an endeavor to find really good men, and he has at the same time insisted on giving local pastors a chance to cultivate the Harvard field. While some of these are excellent men, others are invited merely because they have a "stake in the Harvard community," or because such invitations have been extended in the past--and the popularity...
...many people with thoroughness rather than equickness, originality rather than powers of memory, do not have a chance to show their ability in an hour exam. But given an essay to prepare outside of class, all the various talents of each individual manifest themselves; initiative in research, originality in approach, clarity of organization, and brilliance of interpretation become obvious in an essay of moderate length. Above all, it does what an hour exam can never do, by making possible a study that cuts beneath the surface of a subject...
...very often that a second book written in the same vein as a highly successful first one can equal its predecessor in the freshness of its approach. But Anne Lindbergh's "Listen, the Wind," though not so exciting as "North to the Orient," is even more of a work of art. In describing places and experiences that have never been described before, Mrs. Lindbergh, with unusual sensibility and insight, has succeeded in making her story both beautiful and real...
Moreover, the author is clever enough to leave out the mass of facts that burden down the usual narrative, and by her subjective approach produces a series of vivid sketches. The first one, concerning her stay at one of the Cape Verde Islands where the wind blew forever and time meant nothing, is an artistic triumph, and at times comes very close to being poetry. it is beautiful prose, natural, rhythmic, and expressive...