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Word: reached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Service had to weed out a greater than usual number of crank letters. Their authors were apparently under the impression that it would be easier to reach the presidential eye at Key West than in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Desk in the Sun | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...sick, lonely, ghostlike Hugo evaded them. He never passed a bill to a trained cashier. To make his transactions quick, he never bought an article which was not within easy reach of a clerk's hand. For twelve years-one of the longest chases in Secret Service history-he seldom stopped traveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Last Batch | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...mild artificial light that they crave. Guided by their photoelectric eyes, they creep toward a lamp or the fireplace. When they hit an obstacle they stop, growl faintly, back away and try again at a slightly different angle. Their wanderings often take them all over the house. When they reach a light of the proper intensity, they bask under it blissfully in photoelectric euphoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Synthetic Pets | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...than any other private gas & electric company in the world. Last week big "Con Ed" decided to improve its 53-year-old pension system, announced a plan which union & management say is one of the best in the country. Beginning April 1, all 30,000 Consolidated Edison workers who reach the compulsory retirement age of 65 and have 30 years of service will get a pension of at least $125 a month (including Social Security benefits), and a majority of employees will get more. The company will bear the cost of the plan, estimated at nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: $125 a Month | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Mexico and forced to pose as husband & wife, Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor bicker their way into true love. They mistake each other for dope-smuggling hijackers, but each is really an agent of the law who thinks that the other will have to be turned in when they reach the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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