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Word: reaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Infield Play. After BU's Art Chartier had tripled firmly into darkest left-center, he committed the tactical error of attempting to score on a grounder to shortstop. Realizing the folly of this, he started back to third base when it became certain that Mort Dunn's throw would reach home before he did. Where the loving care enters is regarding the skill with which Crosby, Godin, and Mannino put Chartier in the hot box and then put him out. It's that sort of play that will enable McInnis to capitalize on Godin's good pitching when the league...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures of friendship. Do not read their newspapers if you can help it. Be glad if you can keep beyond reach of their radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mountain | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets, whose The Big Knife is doing a brisk business on Broadway: "I am proud to reach out and shake the hand of any man or woman who has the courage to appear here ... If I speak here Sunday, I may be without a job Monday. The country is a little in the state of unholy terror from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tumult at the Waldorf | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Dick Harlow as a colorful gent who could always use a few more good football players. Just about the time that he was preparing his eleven for his almost annual Yale debacle, conjecture would reach the public prints on how Harvard could lure these few more good football players to Cambridge...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Spells Nostalgia to Old Crads | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

...reach the shack Jimmy has to pled up seemingly endless staircases and tread through cold, deserted rooms with thin, gothic, stained-glass windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winder Loves Clock, Pinup Beauties | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

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