Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland and the Azores to Rome. Word came back that an identical ship would reach New York late this month, ready...
...polls or in the records of Parliament. There are a few who might prefer the attitude typified by two men now facing death in a Massachusetts prison who are proud of calloused hands. And yet again, it may be the top-hatted labour M. P.'s who will reach their goal sooner. The thought and laws of England have often changed but its polish remains the same...
...that when these gilded words meet the weary eyes of the rising scholar, the clock will be safely past the witching hour of nine, still it is deemed advisable by those powers which each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads to keep one entranced for many...
...were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked. They all sang-until they headed into a freezing layer of air. Then they began tumbling, like feathers from a ripped pillow. Hundreds were chilled to death when they struck the ground. Other managed to reach trees. Where their long claws clutched at bark, they found footage and rested, necks pulled in, eyes squinting miserably...
...years ago, Mr. Bartlett declared, "The college men of today are a much cleverer bunch. But why should they not be? Their field of interests is wider than that of their predecessors. The rapid transportation of the day brings a far wider circle of the land within the easy reach of the students. They have, therefore, acquired a social culture considerably greater than the undergraduate of several decades...