Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheduled to reach Washington on April...
...Bogotá's beggars have yet to reach the imaginative heights of the Chilean beggar who carried a closed coffin on his shoulders through Santiago streets, asking alms to bury his dead child. Prying police found pesos in his pockets, no corpse in the coffin...
...last week, Eugene LeBar's month-old death had touched off one of the most elaborate disease hunts in recent U.S. history. Throughout Manhattan, and all along the bus route, in many another U.S. city and town, health officers and U.S. Public Health Service officials anxiously tried to reach all the thousands of people who might have come in contact with LeBar on his fortnight's wanderings. He had died of smallpox...
...theory of cycles that some hard-headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
...Governor, Darden had proposed tougher University admission standards; a curb on the "expensive, restricted and ingrown" fraternity houses; new, million-dollar dormitories and a cafeteria, to put a Charlottesville education within reach of many more "rank & file" Virginians. Last week President-Elect Darden held a three-hour peace talk with student leaders, to convince them that he was not proposing a fate worse than death. He assured them that he would not let Virginia's traditions get lost in his bigger & better University...