Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attractive phrase, "Save the Peace," and then expound the party line on Palestine and Mr. Wallace's candidacy. I admit that to take an attitude of amused contempt is a temptation. However, it seems to me that the issues at stake call for a more intelligent and thoughtful approach than cat-calls and vaudeville and ill-considered cries of "We Want War." Edwin S. S. Sunderland...
Most of Thomas Alva Edison's diary is like this day's extract-an approach to all & sundry on a one-track even keel. Like his neat, snug handwriting, which seems exactly to reflect him, Edison's way of life indicates no ups & downs-only a remorseless, meticulous line of continuity. Editor Runes has printed only a handful of Edison's daily records (along with many of his articles and public statements), but they are enough to show what a strange assortment of things swam in the sea of cool equanimity that was Edison...
...Bolles seems to view Saturday's approach with quiet apprehension. Doubtless the absence of Gale is the chief contributing cause to this alarm, but the lanky coach also points out that his crews were out one week later this year than last, and that the opening race comes a week earlier...
Professor Bridgman held that social science can never approach the certainty of the physical sciences because of the impossibility of controlled experiment and mathematical application in the social science field...
...most perfect embodiment of the ideal of faith"), but she loved nothing better than to pray in St. Paul's Cathedral. She, who insisted that all earthly things stand up to scientific test, abhorred the intellectual theologians who sought to "prove" the existence of God-an approach which she believed served only to "debase the purpose" of faith. Sidney never prayed; but Beatrice was certain that he, too, believed...