Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running on his own courage, Social Outcast had circled wide to reach the stretch and raced himself out. He faded and finished third. Aboard El Chama, Venezuela's leading jockey, Raul Bustamante, had rated his mount carefully and saved ground on the inside; now he moved up smartly. Prendase had enough left to make a fight of it, but not quite enough to get his head under the wire in front of the fast-driving El Chama...
Editor Smith ran the story-along with the fact that she had not been able to reach Sheriff Byrd for a statement. The next week, with Byrd still silent, she front-paged an editorial that won her the second top award from the Federation of Press Women: "The laws in America are for everyone-rich and poor, strong and weak, white and black. The vast majority of Holmes County people are not rednecks who look with favor on the abuse of people because their skins are black. Byrd has violated every concept of justice, decency and right...
While most departments at Yale are attempting to improve their facilities to reach levels dictated by present enrollment, one particular area need have no worry: mammoth Payne-Whitney Gymnasium should be adequate to meet all foreseeable problems of the department of Physical Education...
Renovations were badly needed in the old freshman dorms anyway, so administrators combined "deferred maintenance" with the partitioning of large rooms into small ones to reach the ideal of one desk per room...
...none of the humor seems forced. In fact, one often has the feeling that humor is deliberately being withheld from him. At times the audience sits, wanting to laugh at Fernandel's lugubrious countenance, but, for long minutes, potentially ludicrous situations remain tantalizingly un-laughable. When these scenes finally reach a point of saturation, however, they are doubly humorous for the wait...