Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bomb tossed for American youth by Anatole France, Upton Sinclair, and Scott Nearing has brought repercussions from a score of universities. The students are said to have been asleep; but now that they are awake, they look about and reach for a club. Each belabors in his own way, but they are knocking, knocking...
...with a meaning contained in its first four letters. From the same source came a more recent addition to the American vocabulary, the word "humorically" which is seen to have a shade of meaning all its own. A Senator's mind fired by the spell of oratory may reach untold heights, and so from Senator Heflin comes a whole new phrase, "multifarious digniminity", a true stroke of genius...
...United States Air Mail Service is endeavoring to reach an agreement with the Cuban Government whereby transportation of air mail by seaplane between Havana and Key West can be maintained throughout the year. Mail from the United States is now received in Cuba by plane daily, but arrangements for return delivery are not completed...
...competition specify that the essays should be typewritten and signed with a fictitious name, and should be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the competitor or competitors, and sent to Albert S. Bard, 25 Broad Street, New York City, so as to reach him on or before June 1, 1923. Two or more competitors may collaborate, the prize to be divided among them in the event of their success...
...heavyweight championship was won by C. S. Payson 2L. in one of the best fights of the tournament. His greater height and reach gave him the decision over D. H. Courtney '24, although he was punished a good deal by the latter's hard body blows...