Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the victim becomes lumpy around the face and head, he is doomed to blindness unless the cysts are cut away before the threadworms reach the eyes. Even when the cysts are removed, the victim may become reinfected; for doctors doubt that the gnats, which spread the parasites, can be exterminated-even with...
Congress' vote to liquidate OPA might be classed as political assassination or political accident (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But for the U.S. economy it was only an incident in the struggle to reach a national decision, the decision to have as much goods as higher prices could produce...
Thanks to OPA's efforts since war's end, prices had been kept down until, for many kinds of goods, supply was almost within arm's reach of demand. For other goods, notably housing, there remained a big gap. No one really believed it would be bridged for several years. But that might not be wholly a misfortune: when prices start to recede on some fronts, continued house-building could keep the postwar cycle from ending in too vigorous a bust...
From ancient Scythia, by way of Egypt,Crete and Spain, came the persecuted, wandering children of Gaodhal Glas in search of the Isle of Destiny. "I pray," sang their Gaelic bard Amergin, "that they reach the land of Eirinn, those who are riding upon the great, productive vast sea; that they be distributed upon her plains, her mountains and her valleys...
...only the speed of light is invariable. When the speed of a body changes, its dimensions and its mass and its time also change. As it speeds up, it shrinks (in the direction of the motion); its clocks slow down; its matter grows heavier. If the earth were to reach a speed of 161,000 m p s, every pound of matter in it would double in weight...