Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the football, schedule had already been made up when the ODT order requesting that all important athletic contests be held near large centers of population, so that a greater number of people could reach them, no change is expected...
Died. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, shepherd of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, virtual dictator for some 30 years of Zion, Ill.; in Chicago. He expected to reach the age of 120 on a diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate...
...Geneva Convention of 1929, under which the Y and the International Red Cross work, provides for neutral inspection of prison camps. Hence a certain amount of food, clothing and other supplies gets through for prisoners on both sides even when it does not always reach civilians. Men like Mr. Strong, who have worked among prisoners in both world wars, agree that their lot is better in 1942 than...
...Moley, seeded Freshman from California, defeated Bob Hoskins 6-1, 6-2. Charley Greenspan was the only entry to reach the fourth round. After Dick Sorlien, Varsity number four man last spring and winner of the New England Intercollegiate Doubles Championship with Hyde, defaulted because of a cold to Me Kessel, Greenspan then defeated Kessel...
...Hodes has been known only to collectors of Solo-Art and Signature records and to explorers of New York jazz spots. With these new releases, Hodes' piano is fortunately within reach of everyone's ear, and definitely worth the listening time of two records. With a rhythm section of Zutty Singleton, drums, Eddie Condon, banjo, and Earl Murphy, bass, the band achieves a colossal beat, especially on "Indiana." On "Georgia Cake Walk" they outdo the Yerba Buena band in the latter's own territory...