Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sovereignty, pervading San Francisco, dictated the charter's principle of "domestic jurisdiction." Under it, the world organization may reach into a country to get at the causes of war only when all the Big Powers agree that world peace is en dangered. The section finally agreed on gives a future Hitler a little less chance to prevent intervention simply by assert ing that his policies are "domestic." The principle of domestic jurisdiction bore importantly on future colonial questions, and Britain insisted on the restriction...
Coming after John Coppinger and Mel Allen had flied and bounced out, Wallace's grounder to the left side seemed to end the inning, but the Tufts shortstop fired the ball into the ground, enabling the pitcher to reach second and making way for Closky's game-winning clout...
...balloons are kept in the stratosphere by a device which jettisons a sandbag whenever they begin to drop. Blown along by the prevailing easterly wind at some 125 m.p.h., the balloons reach the U.S. in an estimated 80 to 120 hours. When the last sandbag has dropped, Japs calculate, the balloon should have reached its goal. Another automatic gadget then starts it dropping, one by one; its load of incendiary bombs. When the last egg has been laid, a third automatic device (providing it works) permits the Jap balloon, in true Nipponese style, to blow itself...
...future of Joe and Willie presumably depends on their creator's future. The Mediterranean Stars & Stripes, which runs Mauldin's cartoons days before they reach the 129 U.S. newspapers which reprint them, changed the standing head from "Up Front" to "Sweating It Out." If Mauldin gets his way, the caption will shortly be changed again, first to "Going Home," then to "Back Home." With a wife & child, five battle-stars and a Purple Heart, Cartoonist Mauldin has 127 points-far more than the 85 he needs to get his Army discharge. In Rome last week, after five years...
What the wage earning class really wants, Professor Hansen believes, is a 40 hour week with gradual reduction later as real income increases. But if we do not reach a high level of employment, he added, there will be increasing pressure for a 30 hour week...