Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idler has gathered together its finest talent of recent years and presents several very competent new-comers. In the leading role appears Claire Rabinowitz whom many will remember from "The Ascent of F-6" and "Waiting for Lefty." Though in the dress rehearsal last night, she did not quite reach the depth of characterization that the role requires, she gave evidence that she is still adding to her portrayal and will present a fine performance tonight. Mary Douglas has the delightful part of Leonora Fiske which she plays well but with some inconsistence. The best part of the production, however...
...Hampshire to North Carolina have entered 91 contestants whose combined ability constitutes one of the strongest fields in several years. Of all the championship marks see in the past, only one--the 2:51.9 medley relay effort of Vande Weghe, Hough and Van Oss of Princeton--seems beyond the reach of the current crop of mermen. Any of the others may conceivably go by the boards...
...College organizations, the amount raised pleased officials in charge of the drive, who emphasized that they hoped that it would be but the beginning of an habitual practice here in the University. Simultaneously, they announced that a door-to-door campaign would begin next week, in an effort to reach every student personally...
...perish if no resistance is made. That is the choice we have." In this mood Tomlinson sees nothing "unreasonable, therefore, in the substitution on the shore below of endless coils of barbed wire for the children who were there last year." He likes the thought that, should invaders ever reach that beach, they will be met by "a very horrible great blast of fire from all the tussocks of grass above...
...Deus Domitianus, "D.D.D." to his friends), destroys the very basis of Josephus' verbal internationalism, destroys his prestige, his son, his life. At last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically, all that remains of Josephus is his internationalism-the histories in which he labored to reconcile his race and the Romans...