Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "Take the patriotic approach. . . . The nation has an interest in every expectant mother because her child may be a boy. Even if it isn't, it at least is the potential mother of future boys...
Those 350 Yale men have Harvard's sympathy. There are at least that many men here who know exactly what it is to be in such a predicament. In a very short time there will be a new batch of innocents to learn that the supply does not even approach the demand for room in the Houses. They too will be watching New Haven as they trudge around looking hopefully for their new haven...
...even greater importance, to the general public, as well as to dentistry, the influences of medicine have invaded dentistry and have altered the whole approach of the dental practitioner and teacher toward his problem as it is related to the public health...
Laughlin applauds the sociological approach of Chase to language and quickly adds that linguistic change must lead the way for social change. Regarding language from the poet's point of view, he recognizes its value as the life-breath of civilization and also its mortality. But language has become the master of thinking, and to check this corruption Laughlin advocates a system of education that will teach words and ideas separately. His ideas no language and experimental writing--which tries to remedy language deficiency--form one of the essays in his volume. It is convenient to criticize the other work...
...closest approach "Object Reinmuth" sped within 400,000 miles of Earth, which is less than twice the distance of the moon. Collision with one of these small planets or asteroids which lope around the solar system is a perennial theme with lurid fictionists, but mathematical chances against the occurrence are extremely high because of the great distances o space. If a body the size of ''Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away...