Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort, thrive under competition. It is this very competition which insures the casual or regular patron surprisingly high standards, and usually full value for the price demanded. For this reason the denunciation of private tutoring by the University and the substitution of college-run reviews would probably fail to approach the standards set under the present system. Monopoly has a tendency to deteriorate and there is no reason to expect the University to be exempt from this law. Therefore, the ideal would seem to be a set standard for tutoring, approved by the several faculties and rigidly adhered...
...other actress who has so far tried it. In the second place, the North African desert is her specialty. In the third place, if there is any actress in Hollywood whom cinemaddicts have always yearned to see in the flesh-to which color film is the closest practical approach-Marlene Dietrich...
...forty-eight years, though, naturally, as his reputation grew with his achievements, he gained correspondingly in power. Many of the anecdotes which cling to his name and are bandied about wherever Harvard men gather are the result of his personal magnetism and the imagination which he puts into his approach, into everything he does...
About 3 p. m. came an infernal five minutes which seemed to Madrid citizens like hours. Out of low, heavy clouds which had concealed their approach, four big White planes thundered to bomb the slum district of Madrid while three small White pursuit ships strafed the streets with machine guns. Six defending pursuit planes were soon diving on the Whites and anti-aircraft guns spat up at them from Madrid, but all got safely away...
...American Neurological Association, after long investigation and study of the inheritance of mental diseases,† flatly declared that "most of the legislation which has been enacted so far is based more upon a desire to elevate the human race than upon proven facts. . . . Neither psychiatry nor human genetics approach at present the status of exact sciences...