Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of the words. Senator Moses, protectionist, read a four-year-old low tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina and described the life and death of Jefferson Davis. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania mumbled election returns from his state, said he hoped to reach Georgia by dawn. A correspondent in the press gallery whispered: "Poor fellow, Reed would stand on his head on the Senate floor if Bill Vare asked him. . . ." The Senate restaurant was out of coffee. Mr. Heflin was asleep on a lounge; a thoughtful jester had covered him with...
...unless the demand for tickets develops into a wild scramble." The smaller, scurrilous dealers, who have been conducting a surreptitious business since 1922, rubbed their palms and cheered the five black-robed justices, of whom they had probably never heard before last week. Broadway producers and managers sought to reach an agreement to combat any renewed scalping activity...
...taken 66 hours last October for another jury to fail reach a verdict on the Miller-Daugherty case (TiME...
...such revivals do evangelical Christian churches begin the six-week pre-Easter tide of exhortation to creed and dogma that will reach its flood on April 17 this year.* Roman Catholics and the more ritualistic Protestant denominations (Episcopal, Lutheran, Reformed), however, not content with such informality, celebrate Ash Wednesday as their beginning, the Roman Catholics having their foreheads marked crosswise with the ashes of palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year. Then for 40 days of Lent-a Teutonic word originally meaning spring-they turn their thoughts with especial pains towards their religion...
...South America. Another Important usage of the airplane was expected, i.e., in carrying cardinals to the papal election. Whenever a Pope dies the red-hatted cardinals must meet within a time limit of 10 days, which time in the past has been insufficient for American and Australian electors to reach Rome. No American could get to Rome, for instance, at the election following the death of Pope Benedict...