Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inside the tent Red Grange presided. Said a wag, "If any more runners drop out Red will have to get in the race himself." Runner Mike Baze was hit on his leg by a car. Runner Andrew Payne was leading at Chandler. The runners started March 4; they may reach New York in another month...
...Bacteriophage-a living by-product of the development of bacteria which has the power of destroying the bacteria when they reach a certain concentration (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). The bacteriophage of bacillary dysentery has been employed by the Oswaldo-Cruz Institute in Brazil to eradicate bacillary dysentery in that country...
...world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could...
...warmth and flowers of Hawaii where many a U. S. businessman takes winter's rest, John North Willys, of Toledo, last week: 1) reduced the prices of all Willys-Knight Standard Six models by $150; 2) hired every man who applied for factory work in order to reach a required production of 2,000 cars daily; 3) received reports from salesmen that they had sold 30,000 cars during March; 4) notified Willys-Overland stockholders that their net income last year had been $6,341,519, the equivalent of $2.04 on each company share...
...oratory may be excused, but not so the essentially faulty idea of the reverent doctor. Fair example of a teacher in the American college may be found at Harvard. If the lecturer has the intention of deceiving the student, certainly the plot has been skillfully concealed. Scholars may reach conclusions which are at odds with the teachings of the church, but the blame does not rest with the professor. The student forms his own beliefs...