Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrounded by a double fence of barbed wire. They are arranged in groups of eight in larger enclosures, which are also fenced with double barriers of barbed wire. The large enclosures are traversed by a central barbed-wire runway, which makes it easy for guards to reach any of the smaller pens with tear gas. Constant and thorough searches, and floodlighting at night are expected to prevent the prisoners from cutting the wire and thus assembling in larger groups...
...said. On and off the lecture platform, Leontief walks with a quick and jaunty stride; he talks with the same compelling enthusiasm. A friend, remarking on the fact that Leontief usually nurses one drink through a cocktail party, pointed out: "It takes everyone else two or three drinks to reach the same state of ebullience he's in all the time...
...Metaphysician Paul Weiss. Together these men will pluck one topic at a time from the modern Babel, and at the end of each investigation, publish books on it. Their purpose will not be to offer any pat answers. All they can possibly do, says Adler, is to "try to reach agreement on 1) the questions to be answered, 2) the range of possible answers to the questions, and 3) the order and connection between these questions and answers...
...Philadelphia bypass links them, the Ohio Turnpike will provide a super-highway route (see map) enabling motorists to drive all the way from Hartford, Conn, to Indiana, at high speeds, with few toll stops and no traffic lights. When additional New England toll roads are completed interlinked highways will reach from Portland, Me. to Chesapeake Bay and Washington...
...contributes to a lofty purpose, is what makes it, and with it, makes life itself, worthwhile; and the more distant the end, the more grander the prospect." It did not matter then that President Lowell did not say what this ideal would be, of how vague and hard to reach the distant goal really is. For, in the blur of memory, 1927 seems a calm, untroubled year...