Word: approached
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first nine holes in the afternoon he was 1 up. The match was all even at the fifteenth hole and the sixteenth was halved. White won the next hole in 3 to 4 by running down a 30-foot putt, and the match and the championship by a perfect approach which gave him the last hole in 4 to 5. This is the fourth time that the individual championship has been won by Harvard...
...kicked a goal from placement from West Point's 30-yard line. The game was close and exciting throughout and the score fairly indicates the play of the two teams. The contest was, so far as straight rushing and defensive play went, a drawn battle. On its only near approach to a touchdown, toward the end of the second half, the University team lost the ball on downs at West Point's 15-yard line. West Point in turn, after forcing the ball down the field by a succession of fierce line plays from Harvard's 48-yard line...
...spoke on "The East." Its problems he said, were much the same as those of the rest of the country, but somewhat harder owing to the fact that here the separation between man and man socially is greater than in other parts of the country, and whatever hinders the approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem, one which has grown...
...person who buttonholes his acquaintances and inquires about their hopes of future life is shunned like the Ancient Mariner. Among clergymen the subject is seldom referred to except from the pulpit, and even the daily press is silent. Only on occasions of sickness and sorrow, and at the approach of death, does the though arise, "Of what am I, and where do I go?" It is often the case that the older one grows the less fixed becomes the interest in immortality...
...living faith in future existence has no place in the modern social and political problems which face the human race. One reason for the prevailing popular indifference is caused by uncertainty. It is commonly supposed, that a man is appalled at the approach of death. This is erroneous, for as a rule man dies uninfluenced by the thoughts of future life...