Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before us is of narrow compass. There are but two parties to our negotiations. Politics, local or international, are not involved. We sit here, reasonable men, around a table. Under such conditions we will soon learn each others' viewpoints, determine the true facts governing the situation, and should reach an agreement fair to your country and to ours...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...
...London the French delegation was expected to return, headed by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux. At Paris, it seemed likely that France would try to reach an agreement with the U. S. before re-tackling the British debt...
...American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...
...price recently, a number of speculators sold rubber for delivery July 31. They had no rubber, but they "figured" that by that date they could buy it for delivery from incoming steamers. Meantime the ships-the Kansas, the Siberian Prince and the Menelaus- were crowding on steam to reach New York on the closing July date with their cargo of 6,500 tons of crude rubber. They had come from Singapore via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, and during the closing days of July were racing across the Atlantic while the impatient brokers and "short-sellers" figuratively paced...