Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future the same principle will apply; that is, men in the A.E.R.C. will probably not be called to active duty until the end of the semester or term in which they reach approximate Selective Service...
Next year Sir Henry will have a bigger army. He will have more equipment. He may well have U.S. combat forces with him. But, in the last months of 1942, the Germans must be kept off the bridge. If they are strong enough to reach it, they will probably be strong enough to take...
...electric power lines in civilian defense. The network could be used for large-scale air-raid warnings, could control colored lights to warn air-raid wardens, start pumps at pumping stations in case of fires, operate traffic signals, give telephone service in remote areas where telephone lines do not reach and cannot now be built...
...authors of this informative, sparkling book are two able Hoosiers (one a Republican, the other a Democrat), both veteran New York and Washington journalists, both familiar with Europe at first hand. In 332 highly readable pages they reach two extremely important conclusions: 1) "idealism, consistency and strength" have characterized the foreign policy of Roosevelt, Hull and Sumner Welles in the past three years; 2) together with Britain, the U.S. has laid down firmly "a pattern of post-war aspirations and behavior" which should result in a fair and decent peace...
...first place, after there had been many explosive sessions of the different delegations, the Indian and the English delegations got together and reached an agreement to the effect that negotiations must be reopened immediately on the question of Indian freedom. This statement was accepted by the rest of the delegations. India is probably the touchiest question on the diplomatic horizon at the present moment, and it is a definite achievement that representations of the students of both England and India could reach a compromise satisfactory to both of them, instead of a stalemate...