Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expedient for left wing groups interested in their future. For no matter what the background of our difficulties with the Soviets, the mere presence of friction on the international scene will force voters on the large scale to shy from groups with Communist backing. This is the pure pragmatic approach. It skirts the ethics and polities involved in current affairs and comes up with the only clear truth in a foggy picture--that Communists are unpopular in this country. Thus, if the organization is young (the AVC), or anxious to win votes in a real national election (the fledgling Americans...
According to plans formulated by the Forum's executive committee, the study sessions will each have a definite topic and objective to keep them from degenerating into bull sessions. Parzen emphasized that "they are intended for the the students who approach the questions of today conscious of the bigness of the problems and the scarcity of accurate information available...
...airlines' heavier death toll had been caused by more traffic, and more congestion at airports (many of them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...
Northrop Urges Scientific Approach...
...same time, F. S. C. Northrop, professor of Philosophy at Yale and author of "Meeting of East and West," called for a scientific rather than esthetic approach to the problem of finding a universal criterion for modern ethics...