Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days' service between Pearl Harbor and V-J day; ministers and conscientious objectors; married men and "necessary men" in industry, agriculture and science (at the President's discretion); members of active reserve units or the National Guard who join before the bill is signed or before they reach...
Deferments: High school students until they graduate or reach 20; college students until they finish their current academic year...
Shakespeare's Audience. It is not likely that Shakespeare will ever again reach the lusty, semiliterate mass audience for which he wrote; today's equivalent fills the neighborhood movie houses. Henry V was seen by an estimated 5% of the people in each U.S. city where it was shown (as against a rough 30-40% who see the average Hollywood movie hit). Some who did see Henry must have gone to see it out of culture-snobbery, or because they were led by the ears. The heartening fact is that the picture better than paid for itself...
Then he made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, squarecut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen; he was relaxed, direct and confident. He answered ably and fully every question two newsmen could throw...
...House of Lords, or if they chose not to approve, Commons could, at the end of two years, reaffirm its vote and make it law anyway. But, with four murderers under death sentence, impulsive, humanitarian Home Secretary Chuter Ede did not even wait for the bill to reach debate in the House of Lords. He reprieved them...