Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Able Engineer Ogle and others have made painless death a reality at Sing Sing. Once it took three shocks to kill; now only one is necessary. Properly applied electric current reaches the brain in 1/240 of a second; thus, the loss of consciousness is almost instantaneous. Compared to this, the prick of a needle at the base of the skull (taking 1/10 of a second to reach the brain) is sluggish...
...Wilson told of his trip to the foot of Mount Assiniboine, the so-called Matter horn of the Rockies. "With me was R. L. Barret of Harvard who has the distinction of being one of the first men to reach that region. He is a great traveler and pathfinder. One of our best guides in the Yoho is a Yale man. College men are not tenderfoots at all. More of them, however, should learn the glory of a gun, a fishing rod, a horse, and the famous Kickinghorse Trail from Banff Valley to the Yoho...
...absolute because there is no conception that can be absolute. Fascismo is opposed to excessive individualism. It is not opposed to individualism. On the contrary, we believe in variety, differentiation, the essential inequality of man. The 18th and 19th Centuries experimented with democracy. In the 20th Century democracy should reach its maturity. It must find out what it wants. The 20th will be the Century of Fascismo." In a word, when Il Duce is asked about liberty, he weasels, and has now learned to weasel very well...
Before they reach Cherbourg, Franklin Challoner's daughter is infatuated with a Latin-American diplomat who combines the qualities of a grandee and a, waiter. She is quite "over" Tony. When they reach Cherbourg, all she wants is revenge. But Tony does not no tice her proud posturing. His eyes are upon Shirley. He has to tell Shirley about David. David, back in New York where she might just as well have stayed with him, is dead...
...toward China on the part of Great Britain has been announced by Sir Austen Chamberlain. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and may be regarded as a decided step forward in the attitude of the Western world toward the East England has gone more than half-way in its effort to reach a settlement with China, considering not the inconvenience of the moment, but relations with China for the next hundred years." All the points stated by China have been accepted, extra-territoriality, the tariff and the matter of the concessions. Such a degree of conciliatory policy seems large, even for Great...