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Word: reached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will have to follow them up next week to get a good percentage to show up for the actual blood letting. Unfortunately, the post-Princeton weekend scheduling will increase the alcoholic content of most of the blood. If PBH can overcome this difficulty, the well-conducted drive may reach a fine conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blood | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

Pete was a good and faithful dachshund who slept a front of the fire every night, but he was far lighted. Every morning Pete would get up, sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaggy Dog | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when he chews up a gravy spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Indigestible Wool | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Married. Sarah Churchill, 34, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Winston Churchill, onetime chorus girl, wartime WAAF officer, and cinemactress (All Over the Town); and Anthony Beauchamp (rhymes with reach 'um), 32, British society photographer; she for the second time; in Sea Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...country that is a key to Western European recovery. France is apparently incapable of a government with sufficient Assembly support and strong enough leadership to carry through a long range program. Typically, the regimes of the last twenty years have been weak coalitions of moderates, able to reach agreement on only a few immediate issues, and held together mostly by a common fear of extremists of the Right and Left...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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