Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caught in the Gulf Stream off Palm Beach-and frequently anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West where the biggest Atlantic sail ever recorded (119 Ibs.) was caught in 1934. White Marlin (world's record 161 Ibs. ), presumably move up the coast from Miami in the spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth...
...Cornell Sophomore was master of the situation at all times as he throttled the powerful Harvard attack completely, yielding but four base hits and never allowing a runner to reach third. In fact, only twice did the Stahlmen get men as far as second base, and on both occasions two men had already been retired...
...When soft coal labor negotiations reached a crucial deadlock the President called operators and miners to the White House. As a prelude to ordering them to reach agreement (see p. 20), he reminded them that a lot of his family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later...
...Emperor Charles's attempt to regain the Hungarian throne. Republicanism ran against the Count's aristocratic grain, but he knew that a Habsburg restoration would provoke Allied intervention. So he approved the dispatch of troops that repulsed Charles and his Royalist forces when they attempted to reach Budapest in October 1921, earned the title, "the man who fired on his King...
Tradition of the ancient bells of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow in London is that anyone born within reach of their chimes is a Cockney. The chimes are also used during British Broadcasting Corp.'s medium-wave broadcasts in German, and lately in Germany anyone within reach of them has been in danger of having trouole with the Gestapo...