Word: reach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescue and relief work, while President Roosevelt mobilized Army, Navy, Coast Guard, CCC and announced that he was "taking personal charge" of the Government's relief forces, one voice raucously raised the question: How did it happen? At Memphis this week Army Engineers expect the Mississippi to reach the 53-ft. level. In the epochal 1927 flood, than which the nation had yet to see worse, the water was only 45.6 ft. at Memphis. Yet last week Memphis was not badly worried, because in the past eight years the Army's brains and Congressional generosity have provided...
With little advertising except a two-page "Register" of gloomy provincial hotels, the Saturday Review was most interesting when Lady Houston was most irritated at some new crime of Britain's democratic government. Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended...
...ultimate goal of the national scholarships is to reach students from every state in the Union. President Hutchins assumes that the Conant plan merely attempts to break down the obstacle of a prospective student's geographical remoteness from Harvard. It is far more than that, and based upon a much weightier conviction. In President Conant's own words, "The belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every...
...high and as far to the rear of the stage's front apron, lays Isaac on a stone altar and is prevented from slaying him only by the sudden intercession of the Heavenly Host. The latter consists of rows of angels banked 60 ft. higher and seeming to reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch into Egypt. Moses and the fugitive children of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon follow in rich procession, dipping...
...feel a certain amount of resentment toward the athletic departments of their respective schools, resulting from the statement issued above. Inasmuch as the undergraduate bodies of the universities involved have almost unanimously expressed their approval of the league, it is indeed unfortunate that our various athletic directors could not reach an amicable agreement...