Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cajolery. To phone Nairobi from Johannesburg, you must 1) book the call 24 hours in advance, 2) call via London." Even the telegraph is uncertain. "Once in Ndola. Northern Rhodesia, on a Friday afternoon, I filed a TIME story at the local cable station and asked when it would reach New York. The operator calculated that with luck it might be delivered by the following Tuesday." Between Ndola and Capetown, the operator explained, there were an awful lot of elephants, and elephants have a habit of playing hob with telegraph lines...
Harold C. Martin, director of General Education Ahf, also thought that exemptions from his course would affect only a small number of incoming students, Martin said, "Very few students write so well when they reach Harvard that they don't benefit from a writing course." He felt that a better solution than exemptions lies in the course's new "honor sections," designed to step up work for the able writer...
Cheered by such reports, the stock market went right on climbing. The Dow-Jones industrials average tacked on another 2.74 points to reach 292.39, within a whisker of the peak reached at the start of 1953. Some saucerites felt that the ride up the far slope of the saucer had already begun...
...order to reach the finals, a team must win in both the quarterfinals and the semifinals. The quarterfinals are held in the spring of a law student's second year and the semifinals in the full of his third...
...deartiment and every division of the University has a vital program of its own, but each of them. I have discovered rather sadly, has extensive present responsibilities which tax, if they do not go beyond, its available resources, and each also has prospective needs arising from commendable ambitions which reach far beyond that. I should like to single out three of the professional schools for special mention...