Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Estimates of the cost of all this ranged from $750,000,000 to a round billion. But no one blinked. The bill was not only a bow to those who fight. It also constituted an approach to postwar pump-priming, a system of preparing in advance against depression...
They Die Quietly. "First thing that happens to the Americans when they get into the line is that they stop talking. You notice how the conversational silence deepens as you pass the thump of artillery and approach the chatter of machine guns...
...tone and approach of P.A.C. is apparent in the very first sentence of its Political Primer for All Americans (2,000,000 copies have already been distributed). Says the Primer: "Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." This is a full 2,000 years and many miles of Marx-marked thought away from Aristotle's "The good of man must be the end of the science of politics." But, though neither idealistic nor pious, the Primer's opening shocker is unquestionably as American and up-to-date as the word "realism...
Gadgets and Dowagers. Einstein, whose love of music and sailing is well known, also likes to visit 5-&-10 stores, admiring their glittering gadgets. When a friend gave him a zipper bag, Einstein delightedly zipped and unzipped it again & again. He hates strenuous exercise, pretentious people. The usual conversational approach of dowagers when introduced to him is to ask him to explain his relativity theory. Einstein sometimes obliges, soon reduces them to stunned silence...
Veteran of many racing seasons in Long Island waters near his Syosset home, he defended the leadership in the six-metre class, and took part in the Bermuda Cup races. With the approach of the present war came active duty as a Lieutenant in 1940, and promotion to present rank followed on October...