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Word: reaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Menzel, whose thermometers must reach 93,000,000 miles, seems to have the tougher job. The temperature of the sun is 6000 Centigrade, but the temperature of the corona, which the naked eye can see only during total eclipses, appears to be 1,000,000. That's what Menzel is trying to explain, but it's only one of his worries...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Scientists Take Temperatures of Sun's Corona, Yellowstone's Geysers | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

...unknown in this country. The Thibaults, considered a modern classic in France, has had no great sale in the U.S. and Jean Barois, published here for the first time, may sell no better. Nonetheless, it is one of the most original novels, in theme and technique, to reach U.S. readers this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freethinker's Dilemma | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard and Princeton will ever reach a decision on the rugby field it will have to be today down at Princeton. Already the teams have played to two ties, one a 3-3 tie in Bermuda back in April, the other a scoreless deadlock on Soldiers Field one fortnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Journey To Jersey for Last Try at Princeton | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath and tear out a handful of became more savage. Undergraduate organizations sent picked goon squads to crab the flowers, and the Tree Exercise "uniform" changed to old clothes and football outfits...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Gaudy Class Day Rolls On ... | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Theater Workshop opens its 17-day run of "The Tempest" tonight at Brattle Hall with a benefit performance for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund. This evening's net will be the first income to reach the fund started last week in order to bring visiting lecturers on the drama to Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HTW Opens Tonight with Spencer Benefit | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

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