Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forum expert, Granik gets plenty of opportunity to exercise his skill when he takes to the air. Frequently his debaters start battling over cocktails at the Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted...
...mentioned lightly here. What was most interesting about him was the diligence with which he pursued the way of life which was most comfortable to him. Every morning he left his dark bachelor's quarters in the Hampden on Plympton Street. It took him fifteen minutes to reach the Waldorf, what with the day's greetings to give and receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald...
...Clarence Streit. Born in Missouri 45 years ago, one of the first U. S. soldiers to reach France after the U. S. declaration of war in 1917, he was attached to the U. S. Peace Delegation in Paris in 1918-19 (where one of his jobs was to lock up secret documents that diplomats carelessly left lying around). Demobilized, Clarence Streit remained in France, studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford, worked as a newspaperman, married a French girl, fathered a son and two daughters, covered the Riff war, wound up as the New York Times correspondent in Geneva...
...output would be allocated on the priority basis of: 1) a maximum for exports; 2) an adequacy for Government needs; 3) a minimum for domestic, civilian needs. Captain Lyttelton warned that the industries in question and their workers would be given five months to reach agreements with the Government, that where agreements had not been reached by that time the Government would do whatever it wanted...
...group in the city of Philadelphia which is adequately caching the multitudes for Christ. We must admit that the holding of evangeistic services in our churches will not meet his problem. Even such a united effort as he National Christian Mission, as valuable as that was, did not reach the masses if our population. . . . Sporadic efforts at revival services will no longer suffice-our efforts must be wider and more sustained. In the meantime, we recommend to our churches the absolute necessity of renewed effort to secure the absolute commitment of our members to Jesus Christ. In mathematics one-half...