Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued by saying concessions were necessary on both sides to reach a general agreement, and that if he could obtain a concession from the French on the naval side British public opinion would probably give its adhesion to Sir Austen Chamberlain's ceding a point on the military aspect of the problem...
Wellesley, Mass., November 4--Pre-election activities at Wellesley College will reach a climax tonight with a long parade of enthusiastic supporters of Smith and Hoover, Two autos bearing students disguised as Hoover and Smith and their followers, will lead the procession through student-lined streets...
...colorful effects possible to a large orchestra must be known to be appreciated. Although Harvard is within a few miles of some of the most active concert halls in the world, it is always an annoyance and often an impossibility for her students to make the effort necessary to reach them. Only two or three times a year, to hear a particularly well known artist, does the reasonably enthusiastic music lover gain the lower frontier of Huntington avenue. Such infrequent exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference...
Forces only partly known, like hidden electromagnets, were dragging against his fifth system. The New York Central wanted him out of their territory; it wanted the B. R. & P. as a cross-country, north-south connecting line. The B. & O. wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern Great Lakes. The Van Sweringens, close friends and complements of the N. Y. C., apparently stood by. Only the Pennsylvania sided with Mr. Loree's aspirations. Even so, financial and railroad men believe (such things are impossible to ascertain), Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, while fanning Mr. Loree...
...each. The Van Sweringens offered the Iselin-Roosevelt group the full $100, and gained the purchase. B. R. & P. shares are not worth $100. But so great is general confidence in Van Sweringen financing that stock buyers at once offered $98 a share for what minority stock might reach the market...