Word: approached
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cambridge Bridge, farther up the river, the greatest activity at present is in making ready the Cambridge approach. From First street, where a subway is being constructed under the bridge incline, as far back as Third street. Main street is torn up, though a passage for street cars and teaming is still kept open. The work aims to make Main street, beginning at Kendall square, steadily wider and wider until, as it reaches the bridge, it shall have the full width of the bridge structure, 105 feet. This has made it necessary to set back the boiler shops and iron...
...Boston approach the work has not yet touched Cambridge street anywhere on the landward side of Charles street. It is expected, however, that Cambridge street will be widened in much the same fashion as Main street, and be made to spread out from the corner of Grove street until it reaches the bridge structure with the desired width of 105 feet...
...definitely arranged. The Longwood bridge and the low railroad bride beside it will both be raised under authority of an act passed this year by the last state legislature. A new and wider bridge will be built connecting Boylston street, Cambridge, with Harvard street, Allston, thus affording a better approach to Soldiers Field. The act authorizing this bridge was also passed by the legislature...
...Scott, of Toledo, Ohio, the author of a work published in 1903, entitled "Portraitures of Julius Caesar." The originals of these casts are scattered in museums all over Europe, so that never before has the opportunity been afforded to study the portraits side by side, and thus to approach a solution of the problem of the personal appearance of the great dictator. There will also be exhibited photographs of some of the other busts, as well as coins bearing Caesar's head...
Until recent times, Mr. Bryce said, the a priori method of studying political science has been used by the world's most eminent thinkers. This method starts with preconceived ideas as a basis for investigating political phenomena. Machiavelli was the first to approach the subject in the modern way--first, to observe facts exactly; second, to experiment in conjunction with observation, and classify, critically and by analysis; and third, to draw an inference, a generalization. This is the method we should apply...