Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often dropped the remark that an oarsman's best year is his second. This fact is causing a lot of sweat to stain the bottoms of Harvard's shells, since most of the men working out with the coach now are novices. Thus in two years these men will reach their peaks, and the competition for the American shell entry in the Olympics will be underway...
Francis Lederer, in the role of the scheming Mr. Mannigham, and Helen Shields, who plays his wife, never seem able enough to reach the necessary pitch of excitement. Lederer's villainy is often unconvincingly sinister, while Miss Shields, in the difficult role of a sweet young thing who is preyed upon and is nearly driven to distraction, rarely reaches the emotional heights of fear which could lend a heightened note of terror to the play...
...thing that may keep down inflation in Canada is not so much her new rules as the old fact that her price movements now lag behind those of the U.S. Thus, the inflationary pressures may not reach their peak in Canada until U.S. production is high enough to put a rein on prices...
...nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees...
...Network has announced that their summer program will not reach Stillman Infirmary and will not tie in with the Radcliffe station, which is closed for the summer...