Word: approached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such signs, splashed on freight cars, railroad stations and blank walls, warn visitors to North Carolina of their approach to super-collegiate Duke University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
...twitted stogy-chewing Vice President John Nance Garner about his formal duds, inquired what sort of curtsy he would drop when the big moment came. In response, reported Trout, the Vice President grasped two velvet ropes for support, did knee-bends until a "shhh" warned of Their Majesties' approach...
...French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that German anti-aircraft equipment is excellent, while the British, who need it more, are just beginning to approach bare minimum safety strength...
...vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull in their annual 5,000 tons of fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits the peasant to approach the Deity through various saints, and which means a season of blessings, benedictions, reunions, torchlight parades, holidays, betrothals, marriage contracts, singing, wine and forgiveness...
...students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German (now 16,900). At the present rate of decline, Dr. Huebener feared, German will soon approach its 1918 unpopularity, when only 40 New York City pupils studied...