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Word: approached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credits for business are on the rise, consumer credit is climbing fast. Britain removed its credit restrictions in late 1958 and watched consumer debt jump 50% in 1959; France had no credit to speak of ten years ago, now counts more than $400 million. Another symbol of the changing approach to banking: Belgium's Bank of Brussels installed a drive-in window for depositors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...darkness and regeneration, just as the fat man sunning his face with the aid of a metal reflector is a disguised god of light and life. The Plymouth will eventually join the junk pile, and, remelted, may yet become a bridge. The setting is the North Side approach to Pittsburg's Manchester Bridge, leading to the Golden Triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...having a child-for economic, psychological or physical reasons-they are under obligation to use the most effective methods to prevent it. "We are not permitted to use a chancy method, like the rhythm method, which some have called 'Vatican roulette,' when a more medically sound approach is available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Birth-Control Debate | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Professors Elliott and Leach have presented a most interesting approach to the honorary degree problem and one that may well be applied to other vexatious question. When, for example, Radcliffe put an end to the CRIMSON's Miss Radcliffe contest, the editors might have instituted an annual competition among noted beauties of the past. The Williams professor and I may disagree on who immortalized the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, but we would, I am sure, agree that disputation about her beauty would have been more becoming than was the Kampus Kutle Kontest that agitated Plympton St. last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

...this a suitable way to approach the problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary degrees, Sirs, honorary degrees! Surely Harvard cannot shirk its duty to future historians, its duty to choose from among the many those few worthy of its recognition and their attention. Surely it would be unseemly for a great university to bury its head in the sands of the past and neglect history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

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