Word: reach
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...above him the moon is getting into the right position. The property-man rushes around supplying the necessary beards and wigs; the caller comes down stairs, ringing the bell before each dressing-room, and there at the right of the stage stands the manager, with all his machinery within reach and the whole theatre under his thumb, ready to give the signal. The system is perfect, - a head for each department, every man knowing just what his work is, and the whole as regular as a machine...
...protection; yet, why not take all possible precautions, especially when the sparrows are such an easy acquisition? Last year the few robins in the yard did their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach the tops of the trees. Though Boston has lost its Granary Elms, let Harvard still retain the beautiful foliage of its college elms, and afford some material for the sentimentalists of the University...
...Some reach at last the promised shore...
...that swearing is a vulgar and useless habit, and we are sorry that one of our number has been betrayed into it, especially before ladies; and we hope that the fitness of polite communication will be clear to the offender in future, and that no similar complaint will again reach...
...everywhere will view the decision with sorrow and mortification. There is but one conclusion possible in the case. The college convention was captured by the vile emissaries of Tammany. We need not name the methods that were probably employed to procure the bringing of innocent college boys within reach of those unmentionable influences in the great metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances to warp the judgment of men are subtle and powerful. John Morrissey may not have been present at the convention in person, but does any one doubt that his influence silently swayed those delegates...