Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master of ceremonies introduced Hogan as "the greatest golfer that ever held a club," but Hogan would have none of that. "I don't want to ever reach that pinnacle. Then there's only one place to go and that's down. I want to be a 'comer...
Says Group Therapist Dr. Joseph Abrahams, taking a crack at carpet weaving and other traditional therapeutic practices: "What they're trying to do is to reach back toward society . . . The object is for them to learn to live with people, not with rugs...
...wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...
...spinning some 13,000 times per minute (though with only the faintest vibration). The fire raging in its heart would heat 1,000 five-room houses in zero weather (though much of the engine's exterior is cool). From the air intake in its snout, invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust. If the engine were...
With the prospect that this attentive audience would soon reach major proportions, advertisers who have been hanging back have hastily changed their minds. The monthly Television reported that the number of TV sponsors at latest count was 374, up nearly 60% in a year. By fall, Young & Rubicam expects to be handling more television than radio shows in New York City. In urging its own clients to buy television time, Lennen & Mitchell warned: "It is quickly becoming a case of jump in or be left...