Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite pole, with which he jumped 13 feet 11 1/4 inches to break the Harvard record in the Yale meet, safely packed and already on its way to New York. He is going to be out for the 14 foot mark Saturday night, and he will probably have to reach it to beat out New Hampshire University's Albert Morcum who has already jumped 14 feet 1 inch...
...gazed piteously at his hands, so white, so unblemished; hands which had held nothing heavier than a pen since they had passed out of the rattle stage. He felt his biceps, and it suddenly occurred to him that those arm muscles had never exerted themselves more than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...
...Cabinet ranks, two of Winston Churchill's Cabinet changes were striking. He ousted War Secretary Captain David Margesson, onetime Tory, whip who got out the votes for the Chamberlain appeasement Government, replaced him with a man who thus became the only permanent civil servant in modern times to reach the Cabinet without first being elected to Parliament or admitted to the peerage-Sir Percy James Grigg, Permanent Under Secretary of State in the War Office. Solid, profane, 51-year-old "P. J." Grigg is known as "the toughest man in the Civil Service," has had 26 years...
...custody of alien property was a $500,000,000 responsibility in World War I. This time it is a $7,000,000,000 responsibility. Nobody has yet been ap pointed to handle it. But last week Henry Morgenthau made a long reach...
Other Crimson skiers to score were Finn Ferner, captain, who was the 15th man to reach the finish in the cross-country, Tom Winship, president of the club, who was judged 10th in the jump, and Roger Wilson, who placed 17th in the combination...