Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot approach the subject of secondary education simply from the viewpoint of preparation for college. Indeed secondary schools are often criticized because they degenerate into cramming institutions for entrance examinations. Rather the secondary period should afford the pupil an opportunity during the early years to discover under guidance his particular aptitudes, to acquire such a factual knowledge as is essential for his future development, to gain some acquaintance and initial facility with the tools of learning. Intelligent thinking requires imagination and a capacity for abstract reasoning; but it is no less nobly based on ability to command or to discover...
...England (and the U. S.) is the ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze off because, should an enemy approach, the cries of the plovers will wake him up. Egyptian folklore teems with improving tales about the close, platonic friendships of crocodiles and plovers...
...early writers said, was unconquerable by ordinary huntsman's methods. The best method was virgin-baiting. A maiden, preferably pretty, necessarily young, was undressed, turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with his sharp...
With the closing of six successful Broadway productions last week and the approach of warmer weather which will later hatch out the summer's setting of girl-shows and revues. Manhattan critics began to take stock of the past season. Subtracting the six that quit last week (Journey's End, Berkeley Square, International Revue, A Month in the Country, The Plutocrat, Subway Express), 32 shows remained on Broadway, seven less than were running at the same time last year. In retrospect, some unique features of the past season could be noted...
...picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities to each other and who were re united only after the wife...