Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain that unless the Manpower Commission, the Army, the Navy and Congress could reach a meeting of minds on a clear-cut program, the U.S. faced a breakdown in war production and essential civilian economy...
Some patients begin well, then reach a "plateau," stop losing. Only then, as a rule, does Dr. Cutting resort to thyroid. Generally he avoids it because, except in doses large enough to be dangerous (e.g., to the heart), thyroid is less effective than diet...
With the sport curtailed but not canceled by the University's recent decision to limit its participation in intercollegiate sports, the stickmen will attempt to arrange matches with M.I.T., Tufts, and anyone else within reach who can field ten players. The team's usual spring trip has been cancelled, naturally, as have proposed trips to New Hampshire and Springfield. Only out-of-town game definitely on the books is the Yale contest in New Haven...
...Harlem Globe Trotters, a barnstorming colored basketball team, have produced many a freakish player. None has been more bizarre than their latest find: Reece ("The Goose") Tatum, a 22-year-old Arkansan who stands 6 ft. 3, has a reach (from left to right...
Comedy has always been an added attraction of the Trotters. Tatum deliberately capers around the court in a rocking chimpanzee gait, his long arms swinging, his teeth bared. Going for the ball, he often flaps his arms gooselike; when he jumps, can reach eleven feet into the air to block opponents' shots. Sometimes he hides the ball under his shirt, perches it on top of a bewildered opponent's head...