Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven times Premier of France, to plead with Premier Herriot to recede from his position before it was too late and to warn him that he ran the risk of uniting all French Catholics against him,. He told the Premier that it was often difficult for small countries to reach the Papal ear; and if France were no longer at the Vatican, it would be next to impossible. "We can play the part of Big Brother without much cost and with great profit," he continued, "but if we leave, they will seek other friends to lay their case before...
...Government of the United States is gratified that it has been possible to reach a solution of the problem of establishing in Honduras a constitutional government. . . . The Government of the United States contemplates with pleasure the resumption of formal relations with the Government of Honduras upon the inauguration on Feb. 1 of the new constitutional authorities...
...winning from W. F. Howe Jr. of the Union Boat Club, H. N. Rawlins Jr. '27 showed that he should reach the final round if he can dispose of M. P. Baker '22 of the B. A. A. The scores of his match with Howe were...
Although earth and rock are much harder substances than water, the depths of the earth have been much easier for man to reach than the depths of the water. For, although a solid is harder to penetrate initially than a fluid, once penetrated, there is a hole which offers no subsequent resistance, whereas a fluid always exerts a pressure, increasing with depth. So it happens that, although man has been down in the earth for many thousands of feet, no diver had ever until recently been down more than about 30 fathoms (180 ft.) below the surface...
Human potentiality is a variable which constantly approaches a limit it can never reach. Nothing is so likely as the impossible, for which reason people do well to give more credence to their prophets than to their logicians. What can be done and what cannot be done seems, after the expeditions of many years, to be fairly determined; but no sooner is it so than someone is born who borrows a caravel from his Queen and pays her back with a continent, throws an army over the Alps, or outstrips Time with the fleetness of his heels...