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Word: approaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With the approach of autumn, Buenos Aires' good airs cleared perceptibly. The distant thunder that had muttered ominously through Argentina's hot political summer rumbled no more. Businessmen who called on cabinet ministers last week noted a new air of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Riding High | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Joseph E. Penkala demonstrated a new approach to the voter during his campaign for treasurer of Warren, R.I.-he spent most of the week before election day at home baking pies (an art he learned as a Boy Scout) and distributing them to the electorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Into Battle. The Young approach, among other things, got Gloucester County to float a $750,000 bond issue to improve conditions in Negro schools, and persuaded Norfolk to pay the same salaries to Negro and white schoolteachers. On only a few occasions has the Guide used the frontal attack. After a Negro was convicted of raping a white woman and condemned to death, the Guide decided he was innocent. It defied local custom by printing the woman's name. A white man read the story, gave testimony that proved the case was a frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Three in a Row | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Beginning next year, any one of the elementary Social Sciences courses will serve as an introduction to concentration in History. But a much changed Social Sciences 1 will most nearly follow the approach of History 1 when Professor Taylor joins Professor Brinton, to give the first half. Instead of the "important periods" approach, followed in the last two years, the course will become a survey, emphasizing cultural aspects and including source book reading and research papers. Such irksome details as map-making will be eliminated. In other words, the new course will proceed in a different, and, it is hoped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Ironsides | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

...noted the superiority of a critical academic approach to American life, rather than the use of propaganda as a method to create understanding between European countries and the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar Opens Third Year | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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