Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though primarily intended for men in the services, copies immediately began to reach people high in government and business circles all through the Mediterranean area. These copies were passed from hand to hand, were read, spelled out, fingered over by literally hundreds of important people starved for straight, clear news of America and the rest of the world...
...metal plaque on the veranda deck marking the spot where the Japs' surrender was signed. ¶Scribbled "compositions" and scratched their initials on newly painted bulkheads. ¶Scarred the hard enamel of the 16-in. guns so badly that the muzzles had to be raised out of reach. ¶Set off the general alarm, which sent the cursing crew dashing to battle stations...
...repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand. "When you draw a tree," he explains, "you should have the feeling to reach up with...
...youths who reach military age each year, the Army & Navy expect to reject about 225,000 for serious physical or mental disabilities. Of the rest, enrolled for training through local boards, the Army will take 700,000, the Navy 275,000. The Army holds that trainees should receive $30 a month pay, cheap Government insurance, some sort of dependency benefits if needed...
Rich Harvest. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated that the farmer's cash income from marketings for 1945 will reach a dazzling $20.4 billion v. 1939's $8 billion. But nobody expected the Farm Bloc to agree that food subsidies ($437 million the first half of this year) should...