Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, to Newark's fury, Mayor LaGuardia finally won a skirmish in his fight to have a home field supersede Newark Airport as Manhattan's main air terminal. Fortnight ago he personally detonated the dynamite which felled a power-house chimney which was the only approach hazard at Floyd Bennett Field. Last week this improvement finally persuaded an important airline to try Floyd Bennett; American Airlines inaugurated a "summer service" of one plane a day from Floyd Bennett to Boston. American's eight other Boston flights will still start from Newark and all will terminate there...
...black bridal dress, it is explained, originated in Bohemia, where it was customary to regard marriage as an event of great religious solemnity, which the bride must approach with grave spirit...
...mind to import a dry style of my own from Europe," he declared when questioned about his plans. "I am more concerned with showing the method of approach to architecture." The eminent German architect asserted that he would like to stress the practical element in design here, since modern architecture is becoming more and more interrelated with the problems of actual construction...
...some courses one is forced to conclude that, as far as an academic education is concerned, the man on the platform looks upon the tutorial system as the backbone and his lectures as somewhat unnecessary and irksome supplements. For the best student, who makes the best tutee, this approach has just enough truth to be used as an easy escape for the less-than-top-notch professor. Obviously, for the man who is dependent on lectures alone, it spells disaster, and with Plan B about to go into effect for some it will mean disaster...
FORWARD FROM LIBERALISM-Stephen Spender-Random House ($2). Depersonalized testament of much-touted Poet Spender's "personal" approach to communism-with a small "c" to indicate his political celibacy...