Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After only a mediocre showing in the first post-war regattas, the Varsity crew can expect a shuffling of oars in an effort to reach a winning summer combination. Bert Haines in charge of activities at Newell in the absence of Tom Bolles, will experiment with holdovers and returnees alike in order to add luster to a record that holds but a single win, though over Yale...
...peoples of the democracies, and weak nations (which eventually would have to choose sides if the titans should split) could find hope in one thought: that however gruff and bluff nations may act in a serious dispute, they can often reach a settlement at the eleventh hour when they have tested each other's intentions. But it was about quarter to eleven...
...biggest shake-up will come in Lever's radio advertising. Long a leading purveyor of that curious phenomenon of U.S. culture, the soap opera, the company is going to cut down. Luckman has nothing against soap opera as such. Says he: "You can't reach a mass market with a symphony orchestra." But he thinks that radio talent has become too high-priced for Lever's advertising dollar...
...profits from the U.S. eventually reach Unilever House is a Unilever secret. But few doubt that they are the basis of Unilever's ambitious postwar plans. Unilever expects to spend some $100,000,000 for expansion all over the globe. It also hopes to buy up what is left of the great German soap company, Henkel, and thus have close to a monopoly on the Continent...
...Campo 35, near Salerno, Millar and three others nearly succeeded. So clever was their game that they walked calmly out past the Italian comandante's office and were within reach of the open gates when they were discovered by a little Italian corporal who saw the British boots under the faked uniforms. The gates swung shut. Soldiers swarmed out of the guardhouse. The comandante himself popped to his office window, screamed as though cut to the heart, bustled into the courtyard. "Swine, filth," he yelled at the P.W.s. "seducers, whoremongers, robbers! ... I who have been so noble,, so kind...