Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bottom of the Barrel. The Beacon's circulation reached its peak in 1949 (106,757 v. the Eagle's morning-evening average of 58,000), has since fallen off to 98,311, while the Eagle has built itself up to an 88,455 average. But the real result of the vicious war between the two papers is that both have settled to the bottom of journalism's barrel. Trying to outdo each other in sensationalism, they reach desperately for banner headlines, inflate in significant news, and spend most of their time shrieking at each other...
...reach the final round, each Crimson crew defeated three opposing shells. The heavies met their greatest competition from the Isis Boat Club, composed of rowers from the Oxford varsity crew. The Union Boat Club, coached by last year's lightweight mentor, the Reverend "Joe" Brown, provided the closest race for the lightweight eight...
Recently, President Eisenhower announced that he would "walk an extra mile" to reach an agreement at the "summit." While the President (vide his recent remarks about the Moscow Art Exhibit) is about the least likely authority to be quoted in an art review, I'll draw a somewhat shaky parallel from his political mots justes and urge all 3850 of my potential readers to walk the "extra mile" across the Yard to the Fogg Museum for a truly rewarding meeting at the summit of this past century...
...tried to drink from a swift-flowing stream that powers Salzburg's hydroelectric system and was swept into an underground aqueduct. He finally made it to a ledge 165 yards inside the aqueduct. After firemen, swimmers and divers battled currents for four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman retrieved Gigo, weak, hungry, 13 lbs. lighter but unharmed. The grand gesture cost the city...
...Construction-contract awards for dwellings, warehouses and office buildings rose 4% in May over last year to reach $3.5 billion; housing awards alone climbed 25%. Total construction gain for the first five months: 17% over last year...