Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jetmore, who was eight months pregnant, got in her car and drove to Dodge City for a prenatal checkup. The car stalled; she set out afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans., an automobile aerial protruding from the snow led searchers to a suffocated motorist...
These are :1) How responsible is the faculty for the active direction of students? 2) How can all phases of advising be tied together to fulfill this responsibility? 3) What balance between "spoon feeding" and passive availability should advisors reach...
Above the Rond-Point subway station the parade was met by a cordon of police. An inspector reminded the leaders that the law permitted no demonstration in the upper half of the Champs Elysées without special authorization. To reach the Arc de Triomphe, they must make a detour...
Scientists often reach worthwhile goals by setting off in the wrong direction. Dr. Alma J. Whiffen of the Upjohn Co. did just that, several years ago. She noticed that Streptomyces griseus, the mold that produces bacteria-killing streptomycin, also produces a substance that is deadly to fungi. She separated it from the "beers" (solution in which the mold had been growing), called it "actidione," and tried it on fungi that cause human diseases...
Barnbuster. In its next-to-final count, the Department of Agriculture estimated that this year's corn crop would reach 3,649,510,000 bushels-82 million more than was estimated a month ago, 320 million more than the first forecast this year. 12% more than the record crop of 1946. Improvements in other crops in dicated that this year's total farm production would also exceed the 1946 high by a barnbusting...