Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trip 21 crossed over the radio range 800 feet above the field level at 11:44, swung left on the southeast leg for the approved instrument approach procedure. Somewhere beyond he made a procedure turn off the beam, held it briefly, swung back and headed for the field...
Through such friends as these, and through their friends, rather than by a direct approach, the Ambassador has managed to get a sympathetic hearing for his point of view in places where it does plenty of good. U. S. citizens in a position to influence U. S. public opinion have become familiar with the Vichy thesis...
...country is about to approach the cross at the end of its rosary. I see on that cross not the old man, not the man who has chin whiskers, with stripes on his trousers. . . . I see through him a young man just pausing on the threshold of his life. I see through him, gibbeted there, a red-blooded youth, the youth of my country, the blood of my nation, the blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given...
This new plan, although it is not nearly as comprehensive as that suggested by the Council Committee, will certainly tend to prevent the undergraduate from avoiding a broad education. It will force him to acquaint himself with the different types of academic approach: that of the humanities as well as that of science. Although it will affect only a small fraction of the students in every class, it will make it virtually impossible for a Senior to graduate from Harvard without a liberal education...
...chemistry will be taught in two half-courses to be named Biology 4A and 4B. Consisting of lectures and reading, the course will have no laboratory period. The first half year will deal with the organic approach, while the second half year will present the topic from the physical view point...