Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imaginative Indianapolis citizens pictured to themselves a scene which, fortunately, never actually took place. In their minds' eyes they saw a Prohibition officer tracking down a suspicious-looking individual whose coat-pocket bulged with a telltale protuberance. They saw him clap hand on this individual's shoulder, reach into the bulging pocket and withdraw a bottle containing whiskey. And they saw the arrested individual turn upon his captor the face of Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana...
...through a knot of quarrelling players to forfeit the Colgate contest to Harvard, 9 to 0, last Saturday, he stopped a good baseball game. Until that inning F. B. Cutts '28 had held the visiting batters to two hits, and since the second had not allowed a runner to reach first...
Freshman social life will reach its climax tonight with the appearance of blue and white clad youths and fair damsels, the twinkle of long lines of fantastically colored lanterns, and the sound of soft music in the usually prosale quadrangle of Smith Halls, for it is the night of the Jubilee...
...accomplishing these purposes? Starting on January 1, 1924, during the first five months it did a business amounting to $21,000. During the next 12 months, it did $375,000. The following year the volume was $505,000, and for the year ending July 1, 1927, it will reach...
...find your reporting of events often exasperating as well as surprising in a paper which professes to aim at brevity. You reach the meat of an item by the most circuitous route. The reporter seems to have taken a course in the Circumlocution Office...