Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less telling. The Adventures of Chico shows 10-year-old Goatherd Chico taking his siesta, guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...
These quarters the editors shared with the newborn Saturday Review of Literature. Partitions between the two offices did not reach to the ceiling and sometimes TIME'S editors were disturbed by jovial Christopher Morley coming to call on the Saturday Review's editors (Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Amy Loveman, William Rose Benét), bringing his welcome in the form of a bottle of whiskey which he opened by pounding on a desk until its cork came...
...trying to get back to the 1926 price level? Yes and no. The object is more to establish a balance of prices than to reach a norm...
...Whipple breaks even on the stores, but the buyers are then on terms of such intimacy with him that he thinks they will go on buying their hard ware from Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett. Says he proudly, looking at his stock on his new shelves: "Everything is in easy reach...
...weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin Zoo's monster, many zoos have claimed that honor for their gorillas...