Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a military second front there must be a spiritual second front. Soviet Russia can hasten its approach by taking following action...
...British approach tactic was new. There was no formation. The 94 pilots flew so low through 300 miles of mist to Le Creusot that they saw Frenchmen waving. A sergeant pilot described the flight: "As we all took the hedges it was like the Grand National except that there were no falls. It was like flying over England, only more beautiful. People on the ground seemed stunned by the great flock of Lancasters and the noise. We saw no fighters on the way, but a duck came through the windshield with a wallop. My front gunner's turret...
...unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling in straw boaters and yellow gloves, it ends four generations later with the bombs blasting Pearl Harbor...
...Again papers are picked at random, and girls meet in conference groups to set up standards. The grading is not done on a point basis and credit is definitely given for a good but unorthodox approach." Grouser was awed...
...returned to girl graders, and find them more efficient, conscientious, and patient than men." This was too much for Grouser. "Why, I didn't even think they were human," he blurted out. By way of reply, Professor McNair called a Dr. Larsen, and warned by telephone of "the approach" of a first term skeptic." So Grouser was soon on his way to Baker...