Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have satisfactorily concluded the four year course in Military Science and Tactics offered jointly by the War Department and the University through the Harvard unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Those who will receive certificates will be able to exchange these for commissions, as soon as they reach their twenty-first birthday...
Decidedly, this most recent benefit of Science is not a thing to be left around where the children can reach it, or where it can fall into the hands of tiresome practical jokers. An overdose slipped into Aunt Emma's coffe, for instance, might make transportation almost impossible. In fact so delicate will be the business of applying Dr. Saike's remedy, that all operations might better be suspended until the ingenious inventor has had time to pound up another fish, equipped with reverse action...
...will be awarded for the best history of the services rendered to the public by the American press during the year 1924, provided always that the essays received are deemed of sufficient merit to justify an award. Manuscripts sent in for competition must reach the hands of the Secretary of Columbia University not later than February...
...were all lost to view. Quite evidently they had speed. But although Kendrick, fighting strong head winds, had to land twice for gasoline-once at Philadelphia and again at Baltimore-he beat the fastest bird by 2 hours, 41 minutes. The fastest pigeon took 6 hours, 11 minutes to reach the home of his owner-one F. W. Dismer of Columbia Road, Washington. Pigeons can fly enormous distances- birds have been killed in New York State whose crops contained undigested grains of rice that must have been plucked in South Carolina or Georgia. They can fly well over 70 miles...
...Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only once did Ash fall; in the second round one of Villa's wild blows caught the back of his head, knocked him through the ropes. Villa won by his aggressiveness. He wore Ash down with his continual rain of blows. At the end of the bout the faultless...