Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet as the sharks slashed at them, the other terror-stricken sailors drove off their tormentors. Finally Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...
According to Ambassador Kurusu, even a second rebuff should not discourage the Conference from inviting Japan a third time. "When first the warning cry 'Tiger! Tiger!' is heard in an Indian village nobody pays any attention," explained the Ambassador. "The second time perhaps a few natives reach for their swords. But it is the third cry of 'Tiger! Tiger!' which arouses the village...
...British Foreign Secretary Eden elevates his teacup so close to his face that it almost covers his nose, extends his fifth finger to the full; while Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
...situation is this: a student walks across the court. He is hungry, and wishes to reach the dining hall as quickly as possible. He is confronted by a circular grass plot which he must walk around, for a fence prevents him from taking a straight course...
...University can realize the otherwise lost investment of the underground rooms in Paine Hall; and the students will be able to depend more upon reading material and less on an over-worked teaching staff. Taking the musical library out of the hands of Widener and putting it within reach of the Department would undoubtedly eliminate one of the constant checks on the progress of musical study at Harvard...