Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Left alone in the U. S. was the third stockholder of the Ford Motor Co., President Edsel Ford; reporters could not reach him to ask explanatory questions about the company's annual financial statement published last fortnight, as law requires, in Boston...
...sent out, a meeting held, lengthy discussion indulged in and a vote cast before definite action can be taken. To perform effectively its duties as representative of the undergraduate body the Student Council thus must develop a mode of procedure or of control which will enable it to reach immediate decisions in the face of sudden difficulties...
...Louisville, Ky. Times made a sage remark: "It is said that the cigaret is the first thing in the United States to reach the 100,000,000,000 mark. How about the matches that lighted them...
...Griggs's first proposal was in regard to the secondary schools themselves. He objected to the focusing of attention on that one-tenth of the students who ultimately reach college, at the expense of the nine-tenths whose formal education ends with school. This is a matter beyond the range of discussion at present, for the logical solution, the early separation of those eligible for university education from other students, is still far in the distance...
...Station. Ever since the porter dropped his luggage in Copley Square, ever since the moment when the man's eyes flooded as he said: "Home, thank God" there has been a Bostonian flavor, even occasionally a Cantabrigian tang to his work. It is through granite one drills to reach oil, he must have thought, and as good granite as that of Teapot Dome is in the steps of the Park Street Church...