Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distilling vitamins requires a very high vacuum. Scientists do not expect to make a perfect vacuum, any more than they expect to reach the cold of absolute zero, but they try to get as close to perfection as possible...
Damage & Indemnity. In Germany, insurance companies reported damage claims of more than $5,000,000 from Jewish policy holders in Berlin, more than $4,000,000 in Vienna. The New York Times estimated that total damage to Jewish property in Germany "may possibly reach one billion marks" ($400,000,000). The Times thought that the Jewish community this week, after all depredations, still owned property in Germany worth perhaps four billion marks ($1,600,000,000) and, before Hitler, may have owned 20 billions...
About 130 feet in, the ceiling dipped into the water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon." Unwilling to stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with...
...advertising matter, cut from 8? to 1? a pound. Publishers, who have long chafed against higher rates for books than for magazines (previous cost of mailing a 2-lb. book from New York to Los Angeles: 26?: a 2-lb. magazine: 3?), urged the reduction to enable them to reach the 32,000,000 U. S. rural and small-town dwellers who have no access to bookstores...
There was equal confusion on how much money actually would be spent. One estimate was as low as $79,000,000 a year to provide the new generators, boilers, etc. necessary to eliminate power "bottle-necks," modernize plants in war material centres. Floyd Carlisle, however, thought expenditure might reach $2,000,000,000 in two years...