Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went there as scholars, not with a crusading approach. We were not interested in engaging in long political debates. For the most part, we had a chance to meet people naturally, in their homes or in our room at the university. There were of course some people who could not look at us as anything but Americans, but usually we could form a normal pattern of friendship...
...American counterpart. At the same time, however, he found that Russian economics students knew more about their own literature than an American economics concentrator is likely to know about American literature. Natural science students seemed to have a widerranging interest in other fields and a more open-minded approach to controversial ideas than their colleagues in the social sciences...
...that would become a part of a working-class community. There are no stigmata attached to Street Corner Research, since it has no connection with juvenile courts or social service reform agencies. In its two years of operation, however, Street Corner Research has shown the value of a new approach to juvenile delinquency, one that may be emulated in the rest of the nation...
...Lunik II's instruments was a moon altimeter designed to measure its faster and faster approach to the lunar surface. Lunik II, the Russians say, landed on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, near the craters Aristillus, Archimedes and Autolycus. They think the last-stage rocket hit the moon too, but they do not know where. Since it was much heavier (3,325 Ibs.) than the instrumented payload (860 Ibs.), it must have splashed a considerably bigger crater...
...Cole's salary and bonus approach $300,000. He likes to spend it, lives in a palatial $250,000 stone-and-glass lakeside house, dresses in hand-needled $175 suits that have fancy cuffs on the sleeves. With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...