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Word: reached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chopin for Reach. Now thoroughly recovered from his temporary paralysis, he has gone a long way toward outdoing Tatum. One of his particular fancies is to blend in phrases from a completely different piece-such as snatches of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the middle of My Funny Valentine. "I like to venture out," he says. "Like with Funny Valentine, it came to me that there was a similarity between those chords and Beethoven's. I ventured out. It worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swing, with Harmonics | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...first story subsequently proved to have been an important one, though it was not particularly well written and certainly not original. It was one of those things about 'If all the biscuits eaten since the dining hall was built were stacked on top of each other, they would reach . . .' I don't recall how far they would reach, but I do know it was a stratospheric height. Anyway, the editor published it, and I've been writing ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Actually, the P.U.D.s had already drawn up some plans for similar partnership power projects. At Rocky Reach on the Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power. The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Partners' Program | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Drive committee gave two reasons for its failure to reach the $18,000 goal. The loss of term bill charge slips made solicitation more difficult, the committee said, since many students who were willing to charge contributions to parents seemed unwilling to give cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combined Charities Misses Goal by $7000 Due to Poor Timing, Loss of Charge Slips | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

...with a young Harvard student who apparently was connected with the Harvard football team in an official capacity. My wife and I were sitting in the general admission seats when down the field came the young Harvard student. At each five yard stripe he would reach down, pluck twice apparently at blades of grass, then hold his hand extended up in the air. He would not look up at his extended hand. However, when he brought his hand down he would look at it and jot down with pencil and paper his findings. He did this the entire length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRASS PLUCKER | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

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