Word: reached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who live beyond the reach of fast surface mail get their copies of TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon...
...fourth-floor office of the State Department this week, busy aides thumbed diligently through top-secret policy papers on German-Austrian affairs. George Kennan, expert on U.S.-Soviet policies, slipped off to a secret sanctum where he could think things through beyond the reach of visitors and telephones. In other offices, other State Department experts put their heads together and seriously pretended that they were Russians. If they were, what would they plan to do next...
...installed radio and telephone equipment, repainted border signs, clipped weeds at the sides of the long unused highway. The British announced that the first train would be for military passengers and correspondents. Later in the day, ten trainloads of coal and six of fresh potatoes and other goods would reach the city...
...Washington system, on the other hand, concentrates on obtaining a powerful pull by getting a long reach at the beginning of the stroke, and finishing with a slight enough layback so that a quick and smooth recovery is possible...
...race warmup usually involves some three to four miles of leisurely rowing to loosen up the muscles. It is a delicate process, for the men must reach the starting-line just at the point when they are thoroughly warmed up, and yet not fatigued. And they must time it to get there just before the race begins, so they won't cool off again...