Word: approached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Croat Leader Vladimir Matchek, dubbed the "Croatian Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks, organized farmers' strikes and riots to hamstring the Government. Though nominally exponents of peasant-democ racy, in recent years some Croats began to drop hints that an approach to Germany might be the only way to wring concessions from the Serb Government. Such hints reminded the Yugoslav Government all too vividly of the actions last March of the Slovaks, who finally appealed to Führer Hitler to "save" their country from the Czechs...
This makes a total of forty-four young men from various colleges who have been appointed Junior Fellows at Harvard since the founding of the Society in 1933. The nearest existing approach to the Harvard Society is foun at some of the English colleges, especially Trinity, Cambridge...
...hurler Tom Healey will too the rubber for the Crimson, and will probably share mound duties with Slim Curtiss. Both pitchers are fresh from Eastern League triumphs, and have had far more opportunity to approach mid-season form than the ice-bound Terrier flingers...
Flight. Meanwhile, at the first approach of danger, 43-year-old King Zog loaded his 23-year-old wife and newly born son into an Albanian automobile converted into an ambulance and sent them, with escort, over a 160-mile stretch of rough road into neighboring Greece. Lodging in a primitive little inn at Fiorina, across the frontier. Her Majesty through her Hungarian grandmother, Countess D'Estrelle D'Ekna, released an appeal to the world: "I left my husband leading his troops-his poor insignificant little Army-into battle. What could Albania do against such armed might...
...artist, as Holger Cahill wrote, "a new concept of social loyalty and responsibility, of the artist's union with his fellow men in origin and destiny, seems to be replacing the romantic concept of nature which for so many years gave to artists and to many others a unifying approach to art . . . an end seems to be in sight to the kind of detachment which removed the artist from common experience, and which at its worst gave rise to an art merely for the museum, a rarified preciousness." If the layman is to meet the artist half way, we must...