Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning Monday, the Freshmen will participate in the annual old clothes drive by canvassing the Yard dormitories. A check-up revealed that only one Thanksgiving basket failed to reach its destination last week. The missing dinner was reported last seen in the refrigerator of Schafer Williams '32, associate Graduate Secretary...
...bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach the floor. Only means of getting it there in this session appeared to be a petition to discharge the Committee, which must be signed by 218 of the House's 435 members. Labor Committee's Chairman Mary T. Norton, having got 153 signatures on such a petition, was this week...
About one-fifth of the Government personnel was moved or fled up the Yangtze River. The other four-fifths were given enough money to enable them to reach their homes in the provinces, urged to clear out of Nanking amid pathetic scenes. One high Chinese official, educated in the U. S. and a pillar of Chiang's regime, wept constantly as he supervised the packing of his ministry's more vital papers, the others being shoveled into enormous bonfires to prevent their falling into Japanese hands...
Unlike astrologers and experimenters in telepathy and clairvoyance, Astronomer Stetson traces a possible channel through which his supposed influences may reach their human objects. The ultraviolet radiation increase due to sunspots produces more Vitamin D in the skin. It may also produce more vitamins in plants which men eat. Increased vitamin intake may, through the endocrine glands, affect emotions and moods. Therefore, "since the composite curve of business activity is fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect business activity...
...Dame Bull's tavern all day. At six o'clock they ate supper in their private room. Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer's knife, whereupon the blade was turned upon himself, pushed down, entering the flesh above...