Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spokesman for the Boston branch of the Post Office reminded prospective gift-sonders that the deadline for west bound backages was last month, but that parcels sent "special handling" or "special delivery" and under the weight and size limits may still reach their western destinations "with reasonable assurance." Emergency restrictions, however, do not hold for points within the Boston postal district or A.P.O. centers...
...outlined by the Council, the methods of choosing the representatives to the Chicago meeting will endeavor to reach every undergraduate for the selection of the three College men. The single graduate delegate, the group announced, will be chosen difficulty of reaching the whole body of graduate students...
...minor morals" attitude of the earliest mentors, when American manners formed an adjunct to law and social structure, and punishment was swift for makers of ugly faces. With the Revolution and rise of republicanism, however, Mr. Schlesinger professes to see in manners the effort of common people to reach equality--a levelling process. A new conception of manners as a set of specific injunctions to be memorized developed, and a steady stream of manners books was demanded by the etiquette-hungry American people...
...Molotov's translator, Vladimir N. ("Pinky") Pavlov, of a word the Russians seem to have been groping for. In a meeting of the Big Four to consider restrictions on the veto, the word "majorization" was born. "Majorization," as the Western diplomats get it, is the deplorable tendency to reach international decisions by majority vote. Molotov preferred a businesslike approach, which would please the minority as well as the majority. So did everyone else, but little progress on how to achieve that goal with or without "majorization" was reported last week...
...mission's chief, ex-Army Major Edwin L. Dudley, a onetime Wake Forest football star, and his staff of doctors had administered 80,000 arsenical injections a month. But among Haiti's poverty-stricken masses, for whom even in normal times soap is an out-of-reach luxury, arsenical treatment is not much more effective than a revolving door. Reinfection occurs quickly...