Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reach legal voting age, I am at a loss to understand . . . the dangerous and deplorable electoral system in this country which allows one individual to control, swing or influence such a large bloc of delegates that he could theoretically personally choose the next President...
...women connected with I.P.R. and involved by evidence in pro-Communist activities were out of reach (abroad, dead, in hiding, etc,) of subpoena. Included: Gunther Stein, Agnes Smedley, Andrew Roth...
...India's records at 29,002 ft., the Swiss had expected to find it 81 ft. higher than that. But when they got there the mountain proved even higher by their calculations-29,610 ft. Wyss-Dunant's advice to Everest aspirants: "Anybody who wants to reach the top better hurry, because it gets harder every year...
Elephants Aloft. It soon earned a reputation for flying planes anywhere, anytime, carrying anything. Four days after the Russian blockade, Seaboard was asked by the Air Force to help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish...
...time of the flash is recorded by a photoelectric cell on the rocket and by cameras on the ground. The sound of the explosion is picked up by microphones near the rocket's launching point. By measuring the time it takes for the sound of each burst to reach the ground, the scientists estimate the average temperature of the air through which the rocket has passed since the previous burst...