Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLESTON, S.C.--the flagship "Philadelphia" taking President Roosevelt on a Caribbean cruise tonight steamed toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The cruiser was making 22 knots and was expected to reach Puerto Rican waters tomorrow night or Tuesday. Fishing there was excellent and the President looked forward to trying his luck...
Fights in the House of Commons have been almost unprecedented in the 20th Century. Reader Davis is thinking of earlier days, when fights were so frequent that, to keep angry partisans out of each other's reach, two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons, two swords' lengths (about 6 ft.) apart. When the present building was erected (1840-50), the lines were replaced by strips of red carpet. To this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...
...selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly not those full professors who are unable to give at least three hours a week to the task...
...present Harvard favors individual instruction over the German lecture system; it favors specific instruction over the Chicago survey system. It is the belief of progressive educator's that the goal of college is to help the student formulate a purpose and to keep him aware of how to reach it. Fingering these two ideas, the undergraduate can ask pertinently if Harvard's theory fits that goal. And specifically he should ask whether the admissions, advisory, and tutorial systems, which are all related by a thread of continuity, carry out the theory. Perhaps the answers to these questions...
Matter-of-fact in his approach, making no attempt to conjure up literary terrors, Mountaineer Tilman pictures only two instances in which he was in genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...