Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retirement age for Naval officers is 64 years, but any officer who does not reach the rank of Admiral by the time he becomes 55 is automatically retired at that age. This is done so that advancement for able officers is more rapid and they may have considerable experience commanding squadrons and fleets before reaching retirement age. Admiral Robison will reach the age of 55 next November. His present assignment, which carries the temporary rank of Rear Admiral, expires in October. The President, however, has the Authority to retire a Bureau Chief in the Navy Department...
...dark side of the report, Mr. Gilbert reminds the world that next year there will be no loan proceeds to aid Germany's payments; and that eventually these payments will reach a minimum of $625,000,000 a year. The budget for 1925-26 shows an estimated deficit of $34,000,000, but this is expected to be remedied by increased taxation of beer and tobacco. Inter-State financial arrangements come in for criticism. Under the present system, 90% of the income and corporation taxes collected by the Reich are transferred to the German States. The Experts recommended...
...guarding a secret. His son, Charles, also had a beard, but he was a wild, moonlighting fellow, and the end of it was that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder of the first U. S. locomotive, had a Steinway piano...
...school : "The control of the boy does not depend on the sex of the teacher. It depends on the character. . . . We have discovered that, up to the fifth-grade age, women are better teachers for boys than men. There is one exception to be noted here. When our boys reach the fourth grade, we put them under men instructors for athletics...
...press as an aid to their digestion. Reporters, the emissaries hired by editors to keep them accurately informed, put upon them out of carelessness, laziness and pure imagination. Picture agencies furnish them with false photographs (TIME, Apr. 20, LETTERS). News services lie to them from afar, out of reach of their investigation. And press agents are paid to deceive them...