Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck, were lost to the world; three were attempting to reach the mainland on foot...
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan applauded Mayor Walker's speech and said: "If what you said tonight could only reach the ears, the hearts and the souls of the citizens of New York and also of our great country they would be made to realize that the United States has no better friend than the Holy Mother Church...
...purpose I have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...
...purpose I have sketched an extreme and sombre picture of trifling with that eye that started single; but in lesser degree every man must guard his vision jealously lest he fall short of the highest character that he would reach; for a dimness of the moral sight, a blunting of the keen edge of sensibility, is the most insidious of perils. This, I think, is what Phillips Brooks meant in a sermon I heard him preach half a century ago, when he spoke of the difference between a man's falling within his resolution and outside of it. The former...
...hundreds of others; nocturnal wanderings were valuable as laboratory experiments in Biology. When the siege was over life went on as usual, with the added consolation that although Cambridge is not the Maine woods nor Lake Louise it does nevertheless have its moments. With days like yesterday those moments reach their height...