Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hammer presents one of the team's poor points. Walecka, the best, although he never threw one before, has been able to reach 152 feet with the 12 pounder indoors, and 125 feet with the 16 pounder against...
Before his men could reach their objective, the enemy opened ten of the dam's gates, released millions of gallons of water into the river valley. The flood reached seven feet in some gorges, forced U.S. engineers to cut two pontoon bridges (to save them from being swept away), then quickly subsided. Meanwhile, the attacking battalion was having a rough time. Murderous artillery and mortar fire forced it back...
...planes a month, compared to 265 at the time of Truman's speech. By the end of this year, at the present rate of increase, output will be 500 a month, less than double last December's output. Production for all of 1951 probably will not reach 5,000 planes, compared to 26,277 in the year of Pearl Harbor...
Skyhook balloons normally reach a height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer...
...final two runs came over in the eighth inning. Again a missed catch allowed the B.U. batter to reach first, and a single followed by a long double scored...