Word: approached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiences as an outside investor. During his early business career, Mr. Ungerleider had been a distiller, getting into the liquor business. When still a very young man, he went to work for a saloon keeper and in two years owned the saloon. Selling out his distillery business with the approach of prohibition (1919), Mr. Ungerleider tried to retire, found the burden of leisure too heavy to endure. He began to play the market and quickly discovered the expenses of that pastime. He soon decided that only the insider had a chance to make money on the Street...
...supply it to them, to one in which the commodity, which is increasingly becoming ideas and not concrete goods, is supplied and the desire is then created for it. Over a period of the past five or ten years "big business" has been using four definite avenues of approach with the above aim in view...
Those who knew him well detected in it a hidden sweetness; but against the stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it crouched bushy brows, and all around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head...
...there is a harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from their road-maps and time-tables at the Vagabond's approach. Persona non grata as he may be, the Vagabond lingers on past the usual date of his annual disappearance, and for two reasons...
...revised plans, two main parts of the general field are recognized. One deals with social structure and development, the other with social theory and standards. It is intended to require the student to study society both descriptively and critically and to distinguish clearly between the two modes of approach...