Word: approachable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
...Pandit has a patrician approach. It was a little time, after she arrived in Washington, before she discovered that she did not have full access to the White House and would have to deal with the State Department. Last week, asked by newsmen what her brother's visit might do for Indo-American relations, she snapped back: "The Prime Minister has not shared his mind with me, nor is it customary for a prime minister who desires to have secret talks to discuss them with his ambassador. And you can quote me on that...
Shafer's group, along with several more Advocate editors, had been fighting for a more down-to-earth approach, while others--particularly the present pro-tem President Lloyd S. Gilmour '51 and Pegasus Donald A. Hall '51--had defended the Advocate's policy of running short stories, criticism, and poetry, as well as articles...
...rate, when the Luunts are on stage this reviewer would prefer to abandon the critical approach. It's superfluous to say much more than that the Lunts are back. I know My love...
...series is valuable as a pioneer effort and as a precedent for other schools, but attendance at these lectures will hardly equip graduate students for the complicated job of teaching. The course needs to be more thorough in its approach, and should provide for more active participation on the part of students--with collateral reading, practice teaching, and written work...