Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ufford, recuperated from his recent attack of mumps, easily beat Tiger star Cecil North, 15-5, 15-11, and 15-7. Barnaby said Ufford was "really brilliant" in using his long reach and powerful corner shots to turn the match into a rout...
...earth were a smooth sphere, the circumpolar wind might flow in a neat circle following the parallels of latitude. But the earth is ridged with mountains and mottled with alternate patches of land and ocean. These blemishes scallop the great wind into snakelike, horizontal waves whose southern lobes sometimes reach the tropics. On the western sides of the waves the wind aloft blows toward the southeast, carrying with it masses of cold northern air. On the eastern sides the wind blows toward the northeast, carrying tropical air into the temperate zone. When two such dissimilar air masses clash, they produce...
...books--one representing Andrew Crocker-Harris and the other his beautiful, frustrated wife--interleaved with one another. The story proceeds by turning the pages alternately in one book and the other, each new revelation of one character giving a new insight into the other. Of course, when we reach the end of both books, we discover that the books should never have been interleaved at all, and it is this mismatch that makes them both into tragedies...
...Barnaby's appeal disappeared, and the number of papers fell off by almost half. Last week Johnson announced that next month he will end Barnaby altogether. Although Barnaby readers always assumed that the child was ageless, Johnson said not so. Barnaby is finally growing up. He will soon reach his sixth birthday, and six-year-olds need no fairy godfathers...
...includes programs on the history of the U.S. Navy, the trial and death of Socrates, the communal experiment of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the physical nature of man, and special documentaries devoted to such subjects as the black market in the adoption of babies. Not all these projects may reach the TV screen, because, admits Taylor, "in this area there is a fairly high mortality among ideas...