Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lamont gift was donated on the condition the campaign reach the four million dollar mark before Dec. 29, 1955. In the event the money is not raised before the deadline the amount will be given to the Union Theological Seminary...
Another reason for the change was the belief that more students would contribute in the spring. In actual fact, ten percent more of the undergraduate body did give, according to Dorsen, but the average contribution was smaller than in previous years. He said he wanted the drive to reach students before individual groups conducted their own appeals...
...jump on the ball. Duke Snider in center can go get the tough ones. At the plate he takes a harder cut than either Campy or the Yankees' Yogi Berra, and he can hit the ball wherever it is pitched. Even a high outside ball, if Duke can reach it, will wind up in the leftfield stands. Junior Silliam, who broke in as Brooklyn's second baseman, will probably start in left field. He is about due to start connecting at the plate. Even in a slump he can bunt for a hit; the speed that gets...
This is a delightful chimney-corner tale of old New England and especially of the hardy, hearty line of Goffes who, for 200 years, have lived beside the moving waters of the family mill at Bedford, N.H., near Manchester. The first Goffe to reach...
...adapted themselves to the manners and morals of the day with equal resourcefulness. Cousin John Rand, a fashionable Victorian portrait painter and the inventor of the collapsible paint tube, was a fine figure of a man. "He stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas, his was too high to reach. He had to carry a looped handkerchief on his elbow on which she could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury...