Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World on Wheels" in 1879, in this case two wheels instead of the present day four, views the approach of the time when highways will be filled with riders, just as now illustrators present a sky crowded with man-made birds. A striking prophecy is contained in the engraving of 1846 on "Hyde Park as it will be." Although the automobiles which fill the entire scene are propelled by steam and resemble dwarfed locomotives rather than modern cars, the whole idea of the picture seems prophetic of the present era, some eighty years later...
...President Sidney L. Schwartz of the San Francisco Stock & Bond Exchange, second largest in the country, last week reviewed the 45 years' history of the exchange. It was founded in 1882 and in the first year handled $9,490,621 worth of securities. Its monthly transaction now approach half a billion dollars ($429,298,882 last September, the end of its fiscal year). The industrial development of the entire Pacific coast has helped the 66 exchange members. California's manufacturers rank eighth in value for the U. S.; its agricultural products third. Oil stocks have heretofore constituted...
Last week Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, liberalist extraordinary, saw one of his dearest ambitions approach its fulfillment when the cornerstone of his new Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was set in place. Before Dr. Fosdick accepted the call to this pastorate in 1925, he made several express stipulations. Among these were: a) that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity, b) that Baptist rites and doctrines not be insisted on, c) that the new church be constructed somewhere near Columbia University. The trustees of the richest Baptist congregation in the world agreed to Dr. Fosdick...
...have dealt here with physical facts in debate and conclusion. There are problems in international relations which of necessity arouse natural emotions, and in such fields of imponderables they become doubly difficult of solution. There are many such possibilities in this conference, but through rigid adherence to the scientific approach and a fine spirit of co-operation they have been avoided. I wish again to emphasize the fact that 80 governments have been able to come to unanimous conclusions upon a most difficult question. It sets another milestone in the progress of international relations." The 200 delegates applauded...
...pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...