Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...
...dogs-he thought they saw through the disguise of his prosperity. And though he suffered occasional grandiose outbursts of generosity, he hoarded his money with fierce cunning. Then in the crash of 1929 he lost it all ($250,000). Broke, aging, he headed back to Hollywood. He did not reach the zenith of his motion picture career without battles. He distrusted directors. He had no faith in writers (although he occasionally tried to steal their lines) and wanted to do his own stories. He finally had his way. Result: an impressive string of successes-David Copper field, Poppy, Bank Dick...
...York newspapers with astrology columns reach Stalin he can read horoscopes which make as much sense as many columns of weighty political analysis. On Dec. 21 the Journal-American's Frances Drake advised: "[You are] sometimes too obstinate for the success that can be yours. . . . Correct the tendency to value material gain too highly." The Daily News's Marion Drew was still more specific...
...Australia, boyish Jack Kramer, the player on whom the U.S. relied most heavily to win back the famed Davis Cup, didn't try to look too good too early. He passed a preliminary singles tourney so that he would not reach top form before he wanted to. But last week the workmen were building temporary stands in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium to accommodate the Cup crowds, and Jack...
...cells grow for a day or so, "eating" the sugar and acid. They grow in isolation, uninfluenced by the complex substances which would normally reach them from the oat seed. Professor Thimann can experiment on them, and know what he is doing...