Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacks increased in weight, the cost rose. In night raids on Pilsen and Mannheim, the R.A.F. lost 55 bombers-nearly 10% of the raiding force. The R.A.F. is pleased when losses run as low as 3% to 5%, as they recently have. It begins to worry when losses approach 10%, the officially accepted dividing line between profitable and wasteful operations. At points which the Germans chose to defend strongly, they demonstrated last week that their ack-ack and fighter protection was sufficient to cause the R.A.F. real concern...
...Harvard Vanguard is a Marxist magazine, for we of the John Reed Society feel that the approach of the Marxist, of the Communist, is the most valid of all possible approaches," it was asserted...
...straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent approach of enemy planes . . . soldiers are still rid ing forward, not bothering to take cover. . . . Furthermore, none of the soldiers is looking at the bomb bursts [which] them selves are not behaving exactly the way bomb bursts usually behave...
...Relaxed Approach. Contradicting most other teachers, who favor fencing flatfooted, Nadi makes his pupils raise the left heel in readiness to spring, insists that they practice before a mirror to correct "a jutting posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...
What Harvard is to U.S. education, what the House of Morgan has been to U.S. finance, the New York Times is to U.S. journalism. Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...