Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano. His next discourse that will reach the ears of millions will be the World's Series Baseball games, beginning Oct. 5. He is the recipient of many a gift. "Every day is a birthday with Graham...
...South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has a daughter, aged 13, another, aged 10. He was only 18 when he went to work as a bank messenger, because he could find no other job. And it has taken him twenty-seven years to reach the highest banking job in the land. For that success he quotes a platitude: "Observation and hard work." Critics have been impressed with the quick, deliberate way he lights a cigaret and extinguishes the match, never requiring more than the absolutely necessary movements...
...Holmes destroys his own plan when he expresses the college's lack of confidence in elementary training by requiring the freshman to study English composition, a course which has been demanded of him from the day he learned to read. It is ridiculous to expect the high school to reach such a polity that it could train a high school student in the work of a college upperclassman...
...circus train that ever moved a mile out of the yards was the railroad caboose, not the last coach of the circus. And if he did catch the last coach why did he risk his precious life crawling over the top of the coaches in a vain effort to reach the engineer when it would have been much easier to step into the cupola of the caboose and arouse the train crew, and have them stop the train...
...intention of the Hound and Horn to provide in a measure, a point of contact between Harvard and the contemporary outside world, both here and abroad. It will endeavor to represent Harvard's potential best, and it calls upon sympathetic subscribers, contributors, and critics to help it reach such a goal...