Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help us out a lot if those who wish to contribute would leave checks with their roommates, or on their mantles," said Robinson. "Over 80 percent of the men we have seen wanted to give, and we feel certain that many more whom we haven't been able to reach would like to make a contribution...
...Deal, he thought, had lined up on organized labor's side and had become an out-&-out partisan of a single segment of U.S. society. The Norris-LaGuardia Act had put labor pretty well beyond the reach of legal injunctions. The National Labor Relations Act insured labor the right to organize. The NLRA in itself was not pernicious. But various interpretations of it plunged boards and courts into a swamp of contradictions. Both acts disarmed management, a fact which labor leaders were able to exploit to the full...
...tense session, Premier T. V. Soong wrote and Chiang rewrote a series of economic decrees intended to end speculation in foreign exchange. Chinese currency, which had spiraled up to 19,400 to the dollar, was pegged at 12,000. But the deeper trouble would be much more difficult to reach without U.S. help. Chinese foreign exchange balances are barely adequate to cover minimum needs for the next three months. China's textile industry, for example, faces collapse if it cannot get U.S. cotton on credit. If China's cities are not making pants to trade with China...
...normal, mature tooth has a hard outer enamel, an inner layer of dentine, and at the core a soft pulp containing the nerves and blood vessels (see diagram). Because blood vessels do not reach the enamel, they bring it no nourishment, take none away, says...
...worth of what a man is trying to say. Last week, after surveying editorials in half a dozen big U.S. papers, Gunning told what he found: "Most editorial writers seem to confuse dignity with pomposity. Their marathon sentences, foggy words and abstractions put their pieces completely out of reach of all but the upper 5 to 10% of their readers...