Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which I would take a special interest. They may break down or stop. Once, to my surprise and dismay, I was dropped in a lift; another time a supposedly foolproof stamping machine ejected 40 unstamped letters for my benefit. The threads of looms at times break as I approach them, but, in spite of these odd occurrences, I am glad that employers are ready to welcome me in their midst...
Bennington girls have lost no time in extending their freedom to dress. At the approach of winter they pull on skiing outfits and keep them on, except for the winter recess, until they exchange them for shorts in the spring. Most of the girls come from New England or New York. Many are debutantes. To go out with Williams men and stay out as late as they like, they need only notify the college office in advance. During the winter they ski. skate, gather in a general store for tea and talk. This year some of them are running...
Such a remedy strikes at what has become to be the particular virtue of the Tutorial System, the intimate relationship it develops between an eager and an advanced mind. Precisely because no two men are alike, the method and approach of one cannot help differing from that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something...
With the difficult music both were perfectly at ease. The Mozart was graceful and fleet, though Yehudi's tone was sometimes sleazy. The Schumann was richly romantic, the Beethoven flawless in shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance...
Last summer some 100 laymen and ministers, calling themselves the Modern Missions Movement, began to put into practice the theological and sociological ideas born of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry (TIME, June 25). Their aim was to help thoughtful donors in giving their money to missionary projects which approach the Inquiry's ideals. Available last week was M. M. M.'s first bulletin listing 39 worthy enterprises. Some...