Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessity, because 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 and take it. Do you want to go to school? Well, go. What are you afraid of? Do you have to stand around until someone comes along with a fat checkbook and takes care of every possible care or difficulty you can have in that school?' They didn...
Both had played fine golf to reach the final over the famed Prestwick course. But in the first part of the final, both lapsed into a duffer game. Stranahan repeatedly pounded into the rough, got into half a dozen bunkers and four traps. Jittery Harvie Ward unhappily flubbed his chances by missing six putts of less than five feet (one an 18-incher) in the first nine holes...
...Hill was spending $1,000,000 a year on ads when Lasker stepped in; soon he was spending $25 million, and Luckies soared from third place to first in sales. Lasker and the legendary Hill spent endless hours dreaming up new slogans ("Nature in the Raw is Seldom Mild," "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet"). Hill, worried because more women smoked Chesterfields, and impressed by the growing fad of "research," wanted a survey made. Lasker, who relied on his own intuition, thought that so-called "market research" only proved that "there is salt in the ocean." His common...
...commotion caused by the invaders, twirling and turning all over the courtroom, and the lawyers' speeches are not to be heard because of their holy bowlings . . . The mystic may be discomposed by the howling and gyrating of the dervishes [but] he leans on his understanding with God . . . To reach the state of intense perception which makes a mystic, a man must be unselfish but egotistical. He must be supremely interested in finding out the truth concerning the universe, and not at all interested in securing his own well-being in it. But he must cultivate inattention to what others...
...farm of Allen Moye. In short order, two other producing wells were brought in nearby. Last fortnight the fourth came in on L. G. Crosby's farm. Last week land could not be bought in the area for any price. There is talk that the new pool may reach far into Georgia on the east and Florida on the south, and wildcatters are setting up new rigs to find...