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Word: reaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train comes roaring round the bend, a figure (a bird? a plane?) hurtles through the air. He races the locomotive to the broken rail. Suddenly the screen goes black. Will Superman (who looks slightly flabby in the flesh) reach the broken-rail in time to prevent the wreck? Will he weld the rail with the glare of his X-ray eyes? Or will he straight-arm the train to a stop? Find out next Saturday in the next thrilling chapter of Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cliff-Hangers | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Only Senators Harry Cain of Washington and Glen Taylor of Idaho voted against it. Said Cain: "We're trying to do too much-too fast." Cried Taylor, running mate to Henry Wallace on the third party ticket: "When Wallace is elected President, we can reach an agreement with Russia and call off this whole armaments program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Victory for Air Power | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Doctors v. Socialism | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

More In, More Out. U.S. imports increased $84,200,000 in March to reach an alltime peak of $666,200,000, said the Bureau of the Census (most spectacular gains were in raw wool and newsprint). Exports also showed a slight increase (up $54,700,000 to $1,141,000,000), but they were still 11% under last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...committee to solve all conflicts! In his hazy mind's eye, he imagined a crowd watching the news roll around the Times Tower and yelling II, IV, VI, VIII, who do we appreciate? So simple too--give each problem a number and get everlasting peace. Vag hurried to reach University Hall before his white hope had faded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

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