Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engine was put in front to substitute for the horse. Thus the automobile gradually acquired a shape that was just the reverse of that most efficient for overcoming air drag-low in front and high behind instead of high in front, tapering behind. The new De Soto is an approach to the sweeping curve of a tear drop. Its front mounds up in a smooth curve over the engine, with headlights and other gadgets embedded in its solid structure. The hump of the tonneau is in the centre rather than at the rear of the car. The engine is over...
...meter-readers, repairmen and collectors on their daily rounds were bitten, nipped or chewed by dogs badly enough to need medical attention. Last week they and their 20,000 fellows were studying a pamphlet specially prepared for them by Dogman Frank F. Dole on "Dogs: How to Approach and Handle Them." Rules...
...applied only for their honest needs than it did on a number of unscrupulous speculators and ex-'leggers who applied for quotas in the names of from one to 30 dummy corporations, with no intention of ever importing a drop. These gentry of late have proceeded to approach legitimate importing houses with excess quota orders and offer to sell them their unused permits at a fancy premium. Since New York is the port through which most imported liquor arrives, FACA wrote to Edward P. Mulrooney, head of the state liquor board, urging an immediate investigation of the practice. FACAdministrator...
...side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves, and various other escapes from famine, sword and fire...
...With the approach of the reading period, discussion is once again raised with regard to the opening of Widener during the evenings. Although as in the past the plea comes from the entire University, at this time of year it comes more especially from Seniors, graduate students, and research students...