Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene O'Neill's unproduced manuscripts are various. Those most likely to reach the stage this season are a dramatization of the book of Job, a play called Marco's Millions, and a third called Lazarus Laughed...
...Were informed by Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain that one out of every seven Englishmen who reach the age of 30 ultimately dies of cancer. "But," said Mr. Chamberlain, "a cure for cancer will come. . . . Tuberculosis, once thought incurable, is now the most curable of diseases...
Example A: "Whatever conclusions I reach at the end of my survey, my report to President Coolidge will contain positive constructive recommendations regarding the future of the Philippines...
Throughout newspaperdom gleeful journalists reflected that obituaries for every aging public man, from Andrew William Mellon, 72, to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 92, lie ready in the desks of most editors. Why not print them as their subjects reach the age of 70? Messrs. Mellon, Depew, and many another cheerful bigwig would relish well the jest. Would not many a reader prefer to scan while his idol is yet in the quick those shrewd estimates of attainment, and compendiums of little known facts reserved by custom for obituaries...
...Chicago to necessitate such a gesture. No, said the McCormicks, there was nothing mysterious at all; no illness, marriage, divorce, or other sensation. It was a private matter. Of course the newspapers found out in the end. They usually do. Mrs. Cyrus Jr.-ardent Christian Scientist-had wanted to reach Chicago for an international convention of Christian Scientists. No, objected Christian Scientists, that was not it. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had wanted to, and did, attend the annual meeting of a body called the Bicknell Young* Students' Association. "Oh, well," thought the public? "What's the difference...