Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With these supplies he is now on his 400-mile journey to the field. He expects to reach there in less than two months. At the field there should be good sledding over level country since there is no thaw until June. Before that time comes he must send back his dogs and some of his men. The remaining members will divide into two parties...
...from approaching the standard of great political biography, the book does not even reach the popular heights attained by most of the "Recollections" and "Revelations," "Mirrors" and "Windows" of which anonymous writers have been so prolific since the war. Nevertheless the book is unquestionably well worth reading because of its subject. Even the haste of a writer who is apparently more at home in the fields of popular philosophy, psychology and fiction than in the rougher path of biography, can not prevent MacDonald from emerging as the most interesting man in English political life...
Iconoclast, we repeat, has not written a book of enduring value. But anyone who can bear to put up with tedious psychological analysis in order to reach a fascinating and jauntily-written story underneath should read this biography, whose author brings to his subject at least a sense of sympathy and understanding which does much to excuse the absence of other biological virtues...
...Reach Top Form Against Green
...Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco. A prodigious meat appetite is needed to consume all this pork...