Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining the bill's size, he commented: "It is a long view plan for the future. It will require many years to complete. . . . [I propose] that we should approach the problem on sound engineering lines, completing the main trunk systems and gradually extending the work outward. . . . The bill does not call for any increase in the budget this year...
...real "War Lord" in China until one has captured Peking, preferably several times. Absolutely nothing was known last week of the strength or nature of the forces with which Comet Wu suddenly appeared on the Yangtsze River in central China. As usual the "Scholar War Lord" heralded his approach with an exquisitely worded manifesto in purest classic script which his mysterious agents distributed to diplomatic representatives of the Great Powers in China...
...times it seems that he is a little too anxious to discover just what particular poems were influenced by a particular does of laudanum. But this is a literary game highly enjoyed in some of the best company, and at worst, a small point. If reading a biography can approach the benefit of reading the original, this book does. It is a fascinating account of one of the most fascinating figures in literature...
...declared that although the comet is becoming brighter it will not be visible to the naked eye. Observations taken at Cape Town, Africa show that the comet made its nearest approach to the sun on May 10. It is still out of reach of telescopes in the northern hemisphere but it is travelling in an apparent northerly direction...
...also interested and qualified teachers. If they are somewhat conversant with teaching conditions in their subject in the secondary schools they will be able to facilitate the transition to college without adopting secondary school methods nor depriving theid students of the stimulus of a different atmosphere and a new approach. The schools, on their part, by placing the seniors more on their own responsibility for the time and place of study and by apportioning assignments in larger units are coreshadowing some of the conditions of college work. It is not improper oramming nor slavish imitation of college methods to give...