Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar bills will start coming off the presses on Nov. 1, but will not reach the public's hands until February (after a two-month's supply has been put in the Treasury reserve). Twelve bills will be printed on each sheet going through the presses, instead of eight as is the case with the present bills. Half of the bureau's 5,000 employes will be used in producing the new bills...
...carried a review of Alma, Margaret Fuller's recent novel. This review referred to Miss Fuller as "once the secretary, now the wife of Edmund Clarence Stedman." You telegraphed us on July 1 asking for confirmation of this statement, but because of the holidays your telegram did not reach us until July 5. We wired you immediately that Miss Fuller has never been married and that Mr. Stedman has been dead for years. Miss Fuller was Mr. Stedman's secretary and was with him all the last years preceding his death, except when temporarily relieved by Miss Zona...
Twelve women were entered. Some whistled, some yodeled, some called "John!" It was planned to hold a series of eliminations, pick a state champion. Interest in the contests has surpassed that in recent hog-calling tournaments. Rules announced: Call must be penetrating to reach husbands far on the prairie; must be of a kind to start husbands home, not in the opposite direction; contestants are restricted to calling their own husbands...
...connected with the nearest railway only by a 40-mile bus line, and lies some 300 miles from Melbourne, the plane put into service by Prime Minister Bruce seemed a "necessary luxury." It will enable him to finish breakfast at 8 a. m. in Melbourne and still reach his desk in Canberra in time for an only slightly late morning's work...
...right. I choose 3 p. m., Sunday, July 24 next." Astute, the Judge chose the hour during which the New York Federation of Churches had been broadcasting the past four years. He would reach the ears of his "enemy" congregations; he would make the "devil's" spear serve as the staff of Jehovah, whose aid-de-camp he pictures himself...