Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are many leaders of intelligence and honesty in the Democratic Party. There are, however, no men in the Democratic Party or any other party who reach knee-high in stature, mentally and morally, to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Finance Minister Vincent Auriol who made such an utter mess of devaluation, but even shifty Auriol was included in the Chautemps Cabinet, as Minister of Justice. To get somebody who is of the Left and yet knows something about handling the intricacies of State finance, Premier Chautemps had to reach all the way to Washington last week and pluck home to Paris his country's lynx-eyed, long-nosed Ambassador Georges Bonnet, a Radical Socialist who has several times been Finance Minister. Bonnet was sent to Washington last winter by Blum in the forlorn hope that he could wangle...
Besides Westport and Mt. Kisco, more than a score of other summer companies are within reach of the fevered Manhattanite who is looking for an evening's fun in the country. Long Island is dotted with them from the Red Barn Theatre at Locust Valley to the John Drew Memorial Theatre at East Hampton. There are also the Starlight Theatre at Pawling, the Maverick Theatre at Woodstock, the Country Theatre at Suffern, the Reginald Goode Theatre at Clinton Hollow. Upstate and outstate the summer theatre season becomes even more substantial. At Ithaca performances will be given by summer students...
...Paramount had decided not to release it on the ground that such an unrelieved record of blood and brutality was liable to touch off more riots. Said Paramount News Editor A. J. Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want to go out and bite a policeman...
Calculated maximum totality at the noon point in mid-Pacific was 7 min. 4 sec. Astronomers James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton did not quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship...