Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest of his plays to reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...
...more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this and to accept graduate management. Let the student leader touch only that task which he can reach with his own hands...
Less important guests go to the east entrance, on East Executive Ave., and reach the White House through a long corridor-cloakroom...
Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...
...York Central and the Pennsylvania are twice as long as we are and make more money per mile of track. Just give us these roads we have mentioned, and a few others, and we will be better able to compete with our big rivals and all the cities we reach will get better service. Thus spoke the Baltimore & Ohio, seeking to consolidate lines that would increase its trackage from 5,200 to 14,141 miles, its investment from slightly under one billion to slightly more than two billion dollars, its net income from about $46,000,000 to about...