Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after calculations of its orbit, Harvard announced that the comet was approaching Earth, had already increased in brightness from the ninth magnitude to the eighth. Now 120,000,000 miles distant, it will come within 20,000,000 miles (less than one-quarter of the distance to the Sun) before receding. At its nearest approach late in July, it will have reached the sixth magnitude, will be the first naked-eye comet since...
...Conant, in the eyes of undergraduates, has placed too much emphasis on scholarship, as such. His approach is too scientific, designed for graduate schools more than for an undergraduate college. His desire to raise scholastic standards should be supported, his research is necessary if the University is to live up to its name as the greatest institution of higher learning in the United States; but the balance has been thrown off between these two and the humbler but more important tasks of teaching and inspiring all students of varying degrees of brilliance...
...defeat. All-even in the foursomes and leading by one match in the singles, the U. S. needed only a tie in the last singles match for a clean-cut victory. This seemed assured when Mrs. Leona Cheney, all square with Miss Anderson on the 18th green, played her approach shot to within an inch of the cup. Miss Anderson,, however, thoroughly at home in the Scottish mist, laid down a putt which slithered 20 ft. across the soaked green, plopped straight into...
...formula for the approach: "(To Customer) Do you smoke cigars? (Make motion towards pocket for cigar. If answer is negative or partly negative-bring out cigar and extend it to customer-but as customer tentatively reaches for it-withdraw it halfway, and pointing to the cigar, talk up some of its features...
...when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done much to speed the approach of that not too distant and highly desirable...