Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted it, innkeepers told their guests. A commemorative postage stamp was ordered. Greek and British flags broke out everywhere and men in British uniforms were carried aloft by cheering, singing Greeks. In the northwest, on the other side of the tumbled Pindus Mountains-a place almost as hard to reach from Athens as the other side of the Rockies is from Washington, D. C.-the little catamount Greek Army, supported by the R. A. F., had finally taken Corizza, advance base for Italy's "invasion" of Greece and the third largest town in Albania...
...slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes in the earliest extant copy of Aesop (circa 1000 A.D.). A 15th-Century German volume showed a woodcut of bewildered apes trying to light a fire with the aid of a glow worm (see cut), while birds jeered from a tree...
...aiding Britain or waiting for the war to reach American seas was concerned, the U. S. had already made its choice. Supplies, implements of war were being shipped to England with all possible speed. Franklin Roosevelt did not reveal what he had in mind but it was just possible that his thoughts ran parallel to those which were voiced last week by the English magazine Aeroplane; "Americans have elected to keep [the war] at a distance by arming the one nation which seems to have a chance of holding it off. . . . They will have to take a share in securing...
Meanwhile, 260 miles west, near the Ohio State line at Edinburg, Pa., it was the Burton Powder Works' (American Cyanamid Co.) turn. A half-ton of dynamite (one of the stablest of explosives) blew up. Dead: the three men within reach of its thunderous punch...
...order to enable students to reach New Haven in time for the Yale game, no disciplinary action will be taken because of absences from classes Saturday morning...