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Word: reached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Flanders will soon be freed from Spain. After the jailer has departed one evening, the prisoner notices his cell door has been left open. He creeps down an endless corridor; a torturer, carrying the tools of his trade, and two priests pass him without notice. When he finally reaches the open air, his cry of exultation is drowned out by a liturgical chant from chorus and organ. Two arms reach out for him from the shadow of a tree, and the jailer steps forth to inquire, "Why did you want to leave us on the eve of your salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Il Bruttino | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...surprise, Composer Dallapiccola, a man who does not expect popular huzzahs for his music, got four curtain calls-perhaps more for what he said than for the twelve-tone way he said it. Said he: "I have the impression . . . that this subject could, in all probability, reach a good section of Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Il Bruttino | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...will never reach the Supreme-Court, but the case of the State of New York versus Ten Young Men Carrying Concealed Weapons has stirred up more interest at Syracuse University than any legal battle in history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun-Toters | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

Dudley defeated Saybrook College of Yale, 7 to 0, at New Haven Saturday to win the Harvard-Yale intramural baseball championship. Ed Snow of the Commuters stymied Saybrook, letting only one man reach third base, striking out eight, and giving up only three hitz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley Nine Wins H-Y Title Contest | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...historical fabric of the picture is fairly enjoyable. It was framed in Berlin itself, and a little of the agony and destruction of the country is caught. A single little shovel digging methodically into an infinite pile of rubble is about as grimly futile as Tantalus' hopeless reach for the fruit...

Author: By David P. Lighthill, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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