Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discarded when it was found that Lew can leap up and nearly touch the top of the backboard-13 ft. above the floor. Another coach facetiously plugged for sinking the baskets into the floor like golf cups. "That way," he said, "it should at least take him longer to reach over and stuff the ball in." A third alternative was tested by Southern Cal Coach Bobby Boyd when his Trojans played the Bruins two weeks ago. Boyd's notion: pretend that Alcindor is just another man on the U.C.L.A. roster, let him take his shots-and pray that...
Other incoming callers, trying to reach the bugged phone, receive a busy signal. And because it is making no radio-frequency transmission, the infinity transmitter can be detected only by physical search, not by an anti-bugger...
...later transferred to the Catholic archdiocese of New York. The 1950 price was about $4,000,000, and few investments have proved more profitable. In less than 16 years, the royalty payments on the 50% exceeded $13 million; this year alone the church's share is expected to reach $2,000,000. Two weeks ago, in order to obtain funds, the archdiocese sold its interest to a group of 15 pension funds, universities, hospitals and individuals. It had to pay $1,000,000, covering legal fees and a commission, to the Wall Street firm of Laird & Co., which arranged...
...reach both types of students, the teacher must aim somewhere between their interests, a necessary approach but one which satisfies neither group. Chemistry students argue that there is too little theory. Non-concentrators, the more vocal group, complain that the labs are too long, the courses too hard and not aimed at teaching the material which will be useful in later work...