Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Oct. 18 issue, TIME began running weekly four-color covers as an experiment, has since adopted them as a continuing policy. No new color process, but a speeding up of engraving and printing schedules has made this possible. The deadline for color photographs or paintings to reach TIME'S engravers in Chicago is two weeks and four days before publication, which is probably the fastest four-color magazine cover schedule in the world...
...Association published The Crisis, later to reach its peak of influence under the editorship of Atlanta University's scholarly VV. E. Burghardt Du Bois.* It circulated a news service to the Negro press, which now numbers over 200 papers and magazines. It lobbied for Negro legislation, and, when a post-War wave of lynchings carried off ten returned Negro soldiers in 1919 (two of them burned alive), it began to spend an increasing amount of its energy promoting State and then Federal anti-lynching laws. Palefaced Negro White did his job well. He talked to members of mobs that executed...
...dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves, to the 18305 when a St. Louis judge, aptly named Lawless, advised a jury that mob murder was "beyond the reach of law." The N. A. A. C. P. record still is that after 99.4% of U. S. lynchings, sheriffs had reported with melancholy unanimity: no arrests, no indictments, no convictions...
...Placement Office is another source of information. Whether or not the issue be placement, a senior or underclassman who can have a job for the asking when he graduates is welcome to come here to discuss the factors which should govern his decision. No effort will be made to reach any conclusions for him, nor will he be persuaded against his will even to consider other employment than that which has been offered...
...Wright has said, "I brought the whole house down in height to fit a normal one-ergo, 5' 8" tall, say. ... I broadened the mass out all I possibly could, brought it down into spaciousness. ... I was working toward the elimination of the wall as a wall to reach the function of a screen, as a means of opening up space. . . . The planes of the building parallel to the ground were all stressed-to grip the whole to Earth...