Word: approach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis thus: There is a slight extension of the mischief in the lung...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
TYPICAL of Sabitini's general run of novels, this work neither reaches up to the high standard set by "Scaramouche" and "Captain Blood" nor does it approach the level of mediocrity which this author occasionally strikes...
...impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking Mr. Talmadge would fight a duel to death with his double and that they would both...
...factory whistles shrilled at the Brown Derby's approach as it passed nor as it vanished. Mill owners had turned their steam on for Candidate Hoover, had (See p. 15) kept every whistle at full toot so long as he was in hearing. Now mill hands left their piece work, ran to big windows and yelled, forced numerous mills to shut down from five minutes to an hour...