Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans-that Italy's former African colonies be returned to Italian administration under a U.N. trusteeship? Truman's voice was mild but edged. Under the Italian peace treaty, he said, the disposition of these colonies is under consideration by the Big Four powers. If they do not reach an agreement, the problem will go to the U.N. Assembly. The question cannot very well be handled politically in the U.S., he said...
...nation's gum-chewers, reported Gum-Man Philip K. Wrigley, chomped enough sticks (19 billion) last year to reach around the equator 34½ times...
Inside the stars, where the temperature may reach a "scorching" 20 million degrees centigrade, thermonuclear reactions are constantly at work changing hydrogen into helium. The University of Chicago's Dr. Otto Struve, head of the 42-man U.S. delegation, repeated a solemn prediction: in 3 billion years some stars will have burned up most of their hydrogen, leaving the helium "as 'ashes' of this stupendous nuclear transformation furnace...
...Rescue men did not interfere with Mexican news photographers . . . The rescue team did not, in fact, reach the scene of the crash. 4) Mexican newsmen were loaned blankets...
After an hour's debate, the jury of six students was unable to reach a verdict, which was understandable, since both driver and pedestrian were at fault, and witnesses were undependable. Professor Joiner declared the trial a classroom success. "I thought we had a good thing here," said he last week. "Now I'm sure...