Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cramming was the only way out, and although this term's enrollment has not distended the House system and Yard halls noticeably, the estimates on next fall's registration, which reach up to 5800, have elicited from University Hall the frank admission that things are going to be crowded and unpleasant for most undergraduates next fall. Fifty per cent has been added to the normal capacity figures for all Houses, and an extra man or men in every room has become the rule...
...Edward II's tomb in St. Peter's Abbey (now Gloucester Cathedral) never got a good look at the King's recumbent, alabaster effigy; it lay too close under an elaborate canopy. Now, in the most recent issue of England's Architectural Review to reach the U.S., pilgrims and tourists could at last look at Edward face to face. "By kind permission of the Dean," the Architectural Review's photographer clambered up inside the canopy to photograph the curly-bearded King, headon...
...hour, while Widener employees are rewarded with 50 cents an hour with the proviso that their pay will be raised to 60 cents an hour after 18 consecutive months of service. Few men are willing to remain in Cambridge for the five unbroken academic terms which are necessary to reach this high income bracket...
From Korea's capital, where last week U.S. and Soviet negotiators jailed to reach an agreement on Korea's future, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled...
This particular rocket was not allowed to rise as high as possible (some 120 miles) or to reach its full horizontal range (230 miles). Its only payload: a radar beacon, to make it easier to track, and an assortment of dummy instruments, for crash survival tests. But the Army has more V-25, most of them now being assembled by General Electric Co. from captured German parts. It plans to fire them one a week. They will shoot higher and farther, and will carry elaborate instruments to report by radio every detail of their performance...