Word: approaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...refused to echo Marx in attributing the evils to economic factors alone, but tried through methodical research to discover the causes of poverty and unemployment, and to improve social conditions gradually, through an extension of the existing state machinery. Measurement and publicity were her key words, and her approach was almost mathematical in her passion for statistics, and her belief that once statistics were published and brought to nation-wide attention, social reform would naturally follow...
There had been lawsuits aplenty about lands under water, and more than 50 cases had gone to the Supreme Court. But the U.S. Government was not a party to any of them, and the nearest approach to a mineral-rights case was one involving Florida sponge-fishers. There was not much money in sponges, and at that time (1912) the U.S. was getting along on very little...
...surplus wheat and barley to the home country. France herself looked forward to a 295 million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped to raise grain production to approach their prewar levels. South Africa and Australia were expanding their wheat acreages. Argentina, drought-stricken last year, reported favorable crop conditions...
...emotional approach to polio was given a further stimulus last week with the arrival from Australia of Sister Elizabeth Kenny. She went dramatically to Minneapolis, where her controversial treatment (hot packs, exercise of affected limbs) was first adopted in the U.S. (in 1940). Objective: to evaluate the work and prove "the ability of Kenny technicians to meet an emergency...
...victors know that an Italian or Balkan settlement makes little sense until they decide whether there will be one Germany or two (and, consequently, one Europe or two, one world or two). So far, an integrated approach to the peace is blocked by Russia's policy of prolonging the unsettled conditions in which Communism might flourish. The only course open to the U.S. and Britain was to insist that the 17 smaller nations be called to Paris where, beginning July 29, they will work on the edges of the puzzle-Finland, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary...