Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University songs has been out of print for some time, and not for many years has there been a low priced collection on sale. The Glee Club is issuing the new book as close to the estimated cost as possible in an endeavor to place it within the reach of every student...
They Brooks House aims especially to reach the 200 foreign students who are for a year or two the guests of the University while they acquire a knowledge and an opinion of "American ways." When these students return to their native countries they will carry either a favorable or an unfavorable judgment. The Brooks House aims to present to them the kindlier aspects of American life. Professor, American students, and American homes of refinement are brought to these strangers, with the inevitable result of an increase in mutual understanding and friendship. The sympathy thus engendered is an essential contribution...
...agreement with France in the Cannes Conference was a serious diplomatic blunder. Many think that the trip of the Prince of Wales to India, where his presence has failed to allay the revolutionary discontent, was another costly mistake. Conditions in Egypt, already bad enough from the meagre reports that reach the press, call for drastic remedies, according to General Allenby, and ones which the present Cabinet cannot well grant...
...latest achievement is even more impressive. The American Radio Relay League believed that if citizen communication could be conducted throughout Canada and the United States that there was a chance that we might reach out and include the British Isles. This seemed altogether to much to many who had not followed the wonderful scientific perfection to which the amateur had developed his short wave apparatus. But the amateur organization appropriated $1000 and sent the most skillful listener living. Mr. Paul F. Godley, one of their number to England last November, with the most sensitive apparatus possible to get together...
...Unknown Soldier hero at Arlington cemetery recently would have been an incalculably valuable thing for humanity at large to have heard at first hand. There are a vast number of us who do not realize the bigger and better things of life. The printed page does not reach such people. But the spoken word, with its emotion reflected in its accent does "get across" as we say, and it would be of tremendous value to have it do so generally. The radio telephone can do all this, and how much more is only a matter of conjecture. Each...