Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service) disagree strongly with this thesis. TIME did not deny that the human species is theoretically able to multiply without limit. Neither is there any theoretical limit to the food supply. But TIME pointed out that when people reach high standards of living and education, they tend to balance their increase with their means of subsistence...
...candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...
...probe is small enough to reach into the ducts that drain the gall bladder and liver. The device was perfected late last August; by last week it had been used successfully in 25 operations. It will not locate stones without an operation, but Dr. Kirby hopes soon to have a gadget that will...
...reason for the increase is obvious, Dr. Guthrie believes: "As the span of life increases, more people reach the senile period . . . The incidence of illness increases anyway with the aging process, and mental illness is one of them." Another factor is the growth of cities. "City dwellers can't tolerate little aberrations [among members of their families] as well as country people." City life, too, is more complicated for the mentally ill. (A Guthrie example: "A shepherd in Wyoming might be as schizophrenic as can be. He wouldn't last five minutes in Times Square...
...depths of his nature, that the culture of the white men is not worth the dirt in Harlem's gutters. They sense that the whole thing is rotten, that it is a fake, that it is spurious, empty, a shadow of nothingness. And yet they are condemned to reach out for it, and to seem to desire it, and to pretend they like it, as if the whole thing were some kind of bitter cosmic conspiracy: as if they were thus being forced to work out, in their own lives, a clear representation of the misery which has corrupted...