Word: reached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against a bulkhead, and an explosion roared through the ship. His first thought was "Communists" and he hid with his blanket over his head; but almost instantly he felt water rushing in. Although his leg was broken by the explosion, he managed to fight through the blackness to reach the top deck...
Within minutes the SS Kiangya had sunk in shallow water to the riverbed. Passengers on the lower decks had little chance for escape. Some 700 who managed to reach the safety of the top deck stood in cold water waisthigh, screaming for help.* One hysterical woman threw her child overboard because her husband was lost; others were pushed off in the struggle for standing room...
...Federal Council for the past two years, under the presidency of Layman Charles P. Taft. He doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said he: "One of the dangers of all religious and social movements is the urgency of the perfectionists-the men who want to reach their goal immediately . . . The task facing the churches can only be accomplished if the thought, prayer and service of the churches are pooled in a large way . . . The most important thing is not church union but Christian unity...
Harvard's owl has become a major issue as election campaign for Freshman Smoker committee posts reach their peak. Many speeches for and against the bestfed resident of the Yard are promised for tonight, when a campaign meeting starts in the Union...
...trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach." The watches found on the dead had stopped at a quarter past nine...