Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station...
...There were many reasons, many calculations, behind the decision to attack Russia at this time. Some were clear, others still obscure. In his proclamation Hitler said his General Staff did not dare to reach a "radical conclusion of the war in the West" with Russia at Germany's back. For a month Germany had been pressing demands on Russia that Stalin had evidently decided he could not meet and survive...
...first Beaufort to reach the designated bearing was piloted by a flight sergeant from flattened Coventry and navigated by a sergeant from peaceful Saskatchewan. The pair saw the streamlined Panzer ship, closely screened by one destroyer to the fore and two on each flank. The destroyers on the flanks hung close abeam-so close that putting a torpedo home would not be easy...
...Because NBC and CBS refuse to let their affiliates plug into other networks, the people of various States are deprived of many a program. Example: the 1940 World Series, aired by Mutual, which failed to reach listeners in some parts of the country, particularly the South and Southwest...
Sister Kenny places a patient flat on his back on a firm mattress which does not quite reach to the footboard of his bed. The patient's feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, are set squarely against the footboard. Thus he exercises the muscular reflexes used for standing up. His arms are kept at his side, his knees straight. No splints or casts are used. Hot packs made of pieces of blanket wrung out of boiling water are laid on his paralyzed limbs. The packs are usually changed every two hours, every half hour in very...