Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belts of machine gun bullets into the Panay, boarded her and finally left her to sink. Two hours and 20 minutes after the attack began the Panay capsized and sank. Not until long after dark, by devious routes, some carrying their wounded on borrowed stretchers, did the survivors reach the town Hohsien. There they were picked up some 36 hours later by the Oahu and the British gunboat...
...Programs, with Mrs. McFadden as executive director, began to send professional troupes to entertain the children of other towns. By last week Junior Programs, Inc. had played to over 500,000 children, had started a new season during which five companies, performing operas, ballets and plays, are expected to reach nearly 1,000,000 more youngsters in 29 States and Canada. Junior Programs thinks that proves there is a big place for purer piping...
Simultaneously the Exchange announced the findings of a similar committee appointed to investigate raising brokerage commissions. It recommended a general 10.8% upping of commission rates for nonmember trading. 5% for member trading, odd-lot trading to remain as is. To reach these conclusions had taken the committee and its predecessors some 35 months since the subject was first broached by the Exchange on Jan. 9, 1935. Noting this fact and the simultaneous appointment of a new committee, the New York Times dryly commented: "The precedent can hardly be overlooked. Nov. 9, 1940 is the logical date for the report...
...from 1,300 yards to a mile, surrounded by flat, marshy, wind-raked country. Some distance offshore they came on a school of fatbacks so dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year-old Hampstead native said: "They completely blocked the channel. There were so many and they were so thick...
Tamazunchale is some 500 feet about sea level. To reach Mexico City on a vast plateau 8000 feet in the air, it is necessary to close one's eyes and drive madly around the side of precipitous mountain slopes. Of course characteristic of the Mexican temperament is the fact that the mountain road was begun from Tamazunchale and from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest...