Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University officials have held one conference with a Cambridge citizens' committee in an attempt to iron out Harvard-Cambridge financial relations and reach some lasting settlement of the vexing tax question, it was learned last night...
Slim, weatherbeaten Shannon Davidson was the first rider to reach San Francisco. At a pipsqueak reception on Treasure Island he collected the only prize, $750, and headed for home. Day or two later other contestants began to clatter in. One ranch hand, lost, tethered his horse in front of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. All were stony broke...
...Government's new plan is to increase the strength of the forces of the field Territorials, the British citizen Army (much like the U. S. National Guard), from 130,000 to 340,000. Together with the regular Army, which is expected soon to reach 250,000, this will mean that Britain's land forces trained and equipped for Continental service will number some 600,000 men. Instead of 19 divisions that will be ready for immediate service in case of a war on the Continent, there will be 32. The anti-aircraft Territorials will be upped...
Last year, in the Jaguaribe River Valley of eastern Brazil, the gambiae spread more than 50,000 cases of malaria. In certain districts the mortality rate was as high as 10%. After leaving 90% of the Jaguaribeans feeble and impoverished, the gambiae continued their flight. If the mosquitoes should reach "the well-watered Parnahyba and Sâo Francisco River Valleys [in east-central Brazil]," wrote Mr. Fosdick, ". . . it would be impossible to prevent [their] spread to a large part of South. Central, and perhaps even North America. The Parnahyba Valley is 500 miles from Natal; the gambiae mosquitoes...
...101st running of the Grand National Steeplechase in England last week, 250,000 people swarmed over the vast reach of meadow south of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Aintree, where 37 fine horses faced the grueling 4-mile, 856-yard, twice-around chase over 30 time-honored jumps of thorn, gorse, fir, spruce and water, each hoary with legend...