Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lessons: "I have found out in later years we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. All that we knew was that our parents-of great courage-could say to us, 'Opportunity is all about you. Reach out for it and take it ... What are you afraid...
...part in constructing the bomb and handling the test explosion, Physicist Penney (TIME, Oct. 13) will be knighted. He first learned this on a news broadcast; Churchill had tried to reach him beforehand but the telephone operator refused to give out Dr. Penney's unlisted home telephone number even when told that the Prime Minister was calling...
...Bebop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie filed suit in federal court in Rochester, N.Y. against a motorist who "wantonly, recklessly and negligently" ran Dizzy down while he was bicycling in nearby Geneva last August. Dizzy's injuries are responsible, said his lawyer, for the fact that he can "no longer reach above Trumpet-Maestro Louis Armstrong's high C and blacks out trying to reach high notes." Since, as a result, Gillespie "has been forced to reduce the size of his band from 14 to five persons." the musician wants damages totaling...
...midst of company he may suddenly rise, reach for one of his many close-filled notebooks, and go to his up stairs studio to work...
...burning glass is not a new idea. The pioneer French chemist Lavoisier built one almost 200 years ago and succeeded in melting iron with the sun's rays. The one at Mont Louis, by far the biggest ever built, has reached a temperature of 2,500° C. (4,500° F.). Electric furnaces can also reach high temperatures, but experiments conducted in them are complicated by carbon from the electrodes. The sun's concentrated rays are pure heat; they can melt or vaporize a substance without contaminating...