Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another count against the Commission lies in its inability to reach unanimity of decision. On paper the duties of the Commission are simple enough. The matter is essentially mathematical, and mathematics is an exact science. Production costs at home and abroad having been ascertained by the Commission's experts; comparability becomes a matter of cold statistics, leaving small room for soap-box oratory or division of opinion. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience...
...assault. As a result, John L. Lewis, President of the Union Mine Workers, left the conference after the opening session, "called away on business," and did not return. Each side accused the other of insincerity in sending "underlings" as negotiators. Each insisted that its conferees were fully empowered to reach an agreement, that it was not stalling...
...precedent and seeming proof, Manufacturer Dubilier had the reported performance of short-wave sets taken into the Far North by Explorer Donald B. MacMillan (TIME, July 6 et seq.), which their operators last week declared would (perhaps) reach every properly equipped station in the entire world...
...that beleaguer Scotland, were puzzled last week by a pair of inexplicable water-fowl-larger, whiter, sleeker than they-which never rose into the air, but skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...
...historic trees of North America have reached-or are about to reach —senescence and demise. One by one, the innumerable Washington elms are passing Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree, antedating even them, flourished and brought forth fruit for more than 200 years- and is no more...