Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast it would go, but thousands of dustered and begoggled motorists believed that a man with nerve enough to hold its throttle open after his hat flew off could keep it accelerating indefinitely. It was rumored -though here the mind reeled and the senses boggled-that it might reach 100 miles an hour...
Bees, by & large, lead sad lives. Most young queens are killed by the reigning queen before they reach maturity. All the mature drones (males) are killed or starved by the workers (sterile females) before winter comes. Most drones die celibate; only one in thousands manages to mate with a virgin queen-and then pays with his life when she tears his genitals away...
Although there may be some re-writing in the full committee, especially after this week's testimony, the bill as amended is expected to reach the Senate floor in ten days. There will be a strong fight against it there, proponents stated last night; thousands of letters from those opposed to the 18-year-old draft have piled high in the offices of many members of the Armed Services Committee already, Senator Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) said yesterday...
Rene Vielman is extraordinarily small for a breaststroker. This handicap, coupled with pluck which enables him to finish up with a rush long after every spectator is sure he has burned himself out, has made him the favorite of his teammates. It would be absurd to expect him to reach the Yale meet undefeated, but neither Ulen nor Vielman's teammates would be surprised...
...three-inch cannon in the basement of the Freshman Union may seem like nothing but an old World War I training piece to those who are in a great hurry to reach the neighboring men's room. But when we consider that any potential attack on Cambridge will probably be from the East--down Mass. Avenue, and that the present Varsity Club would thereby make a capital toe-hold command headquarters for such an Attacking Force, the placement of the old cannon takes on significance...