Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team will still have two more days of hard practice in which to prepare for the game with the Yale Freshmen. The squad will leave Cambridge Friday morning and reach New Haven in time for a light workout on the Yale gridiron Friday afternoon. That night they will spend in Derby, returning the next morning to meet the Yale Freshmen...
...fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group of islands called Ellesmere Land. Captain MacMillan is not seeking to reach the Pole but will stay in the Arctic zone two years for scientific observations. Winter is now upon the expedition, with its several months of continuous darkness...
From the moment the suit was begun he fought it not merely with tooth and nail, but with all the mud and filth he could reach, hurling the dirt in every direction...
...long as football requires the utmost of its men, even throwing a tiring and wounded player into a situation where he must toss away the last of his vitality in one superb rush, the game cannot reach its highest pitch as a professional sport. Coach Stagg is right in opposing questionable tactics in playing the game, but one doubts if professional football is so powerful a menace as he fears. N. Y. WORKI
...government objected to the importation of foreign currency in bulk. Switzerland, of course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought easily to reach the moon, and a hundred dollars' worth might build a stairway to Paradise...