Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Professor Toynbee: "I agree that the kingdom of God is within us, but it is very difficult to reach. That is our failure. I totally disagree with his [Reader Sargent's] estimate of religion. I think religion is the one help we have toward solving man's main problem, which is himself...
...search ended after four days, three and a half miles in Main West. Fourteen men, the last of No. 5's day shift, lay face down on the tunnel floor.They had not been killed outright. But, being miners, they had known that help would never reach them in time and each had left a note...
...narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to reach Anapolis, gateway to the rich backlands, and longer if the trip is made by road. But from the lush lowlands of the north and the coffee fazendas to the south, 50,000 Brazilians a year are passing through muddy, roughhewn Anapolis in search of new homes and new times, just as U.S. pioneers a century ago left the Atlantic coast and headed west...
...postwar crop of magazine hopefuls, that left only one big one still budding: Marshall Field's U.S.A., a sort of New Dealing Satevepost, which hopes to reach the stands this fall...
...bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...