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Word: approaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boundaries about 4000 square miles, includes 20 unclimbed peaks, all over 10,000 feet high and hundreds of square miles of still unexplored territory. Mt. Tsar the objective of the Ostheimer expedition is probably the highest of these unclimbed peaks and is one of the most difficult to approach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTHEIMER LEADS PARTY TO ROCKIES | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

...Among eligible candidates graduates of liberal colleges of good standing, equal consideration should be given to those whose approach to the appreciation of art is that of practice and to those whose approach is history or aesthetic theory. Such candidates should considered solely on their individual merits, regardless of the pedagogical training or opinion which they represent. Ordinarily, no candidate should be accepted whose program does not include a year of university study of the history of art in an American university. In the case of candidates who have already had this minimum of university training, or whose experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD LEADS IN CARNEGIE AWARDS | 3/22/1927 | See Source »

...wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student has certain things to contribute to discussion and settlement of these problems, a keen and vital interest, a different approach, and a unique pertinence and relevancy of include. The administrators of Harvard University are to be congratulated on recognizing the value of these things and on having established the one policy which will make it even greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GUSTIBUS | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which to him to approach the unknowable paradise. His answer was short and unhesitating. "I should have liked sometime to have given that bolt its last turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...understanding and the criticism of modern American life and standards than that which has been chosen for the first of a series to be published on the general subject of journalism. Not only is it being discussed with a vigor and an interest that for the first time approach the intensity of news itself, but in a public that has been fed for twelve months on such hors-d'oevres as the Dempsey-Tunney fight, the death of Rudolph Valentino, Queen Marie, the Hall-Mills case, Aimee McPherson, President Coolidge's sportive antics in the Adirondacks, and Peaches Browning, there...

Author: By J. F. Barnes ., | Title: Emotion and Curiosity | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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