Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, these three debtors began to show signs of awakening, began to make motions indicating that they were about to get out of bed and reach for their pocketbooks-or at least write out promises to pay on given dates...
This correction will reach you late, but I must set you right concerning the election in Egypt. In your issue of Apr. 6, Page...
...would indeed be painful if we should find our former allies wishing to place us in conditions of inferiority with respect to conquered nations."* Hindenburg. "The Government is not alarmed by 15,000,000 Germans voting for the Field Marshal. Indeed, we immediately sent him congratulations. Hindenburg did not reach the Presidency through revolution, but through the freely expressed will of the German people. I believe, in fact, that Hindenburg's election will prove a stabilizing influence in post-War Germany." Pan-Germanism. "I cannot at this point help referring to German propaganda in favor of the annexation...
...Flavin's reach exceeded his grasp so far that the lines seemed at times only to mock his genuine imaginative creation. Occasionally, he lapsed into blank verse. Lapsed is the word. Or possibly it was the terrible playing...
...Whitbeck of Loomis, who won the individual title last year, but whose chances of repeating were discounted by an injury to his shoulder, managed to reach the semi-final round in which he fell before Johnson...