Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge were an ordinary city, but it isn't. Living expenses are twice as high here as in Belmont, an average suburb. And whereas one may live modestly in New York for a monthly rent of $45, here in this comparatively tiny village there is no approach to such economy. The causes are two. First, there are the exceptionally high taxes. Second, there is the fact that so many houses and apartments of approximately the same standard are demanded that the owners are able to hold out for exorbitant prices...
...East, unlike other sections of the country, has no football "conference." Nearest approach to such a thing is a group of ten teams linked without formal organization by the fact that each plays at least three of the others: Army, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Yale...
...changing conditions of American social and economic life. Thus, intelligent opposition to the current administration should be based on a critical examination of specific issues in the light of relative constitutional principles. Attempts to dramatize the Constitution merely cloud the fundamental issues at stake and substitute for an intellectual approach to the problem, the impassioned appeal of the demagogue...
...points. Moody's Investors' Service reported that 70 industrial companies reporting nine-month 1935 earnings were 17% ahead of 1934. Many of the market favorites were selling at two or three times their lows of last March. Cheered by Chrysler and General Motors earnings, excited by the approach of the New York automobile show (see col. 3), traders bought motor stocks with more enthusiasm than selection. Packard, Nash, Reo, Studebaker, Hudson, Graham-Paige-everything on four wheels-went rolling through the market on high, even if it rolled on a deficit basis. Strong also were Murray and Briggs...
...plays and readings to be presented by the members themselves. We hope thus to give opportunity to these interested in Spanish to hear it spoken well and to some degree coloquistly, a privilege often difficult to find: and also to use it themselves. We hope, too, to give an approach to Spain somewhat different from that found in regular college courses and complementary to them. Spain is no less to be found in her newspapers and magazines and her modern music than in her literary masterpieces of the past, and we shall endeavor to see something of this side...