Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarming nebulae. The most distant showed as tiny, dim blobs. By a complex statistical method Hubble proved, after years of work, that these dimmest glimmers were so far away that their light, speeding at 186,000 miles per second, took 500,000,000 years to reach Mount Wilson...
...finite, what lies beyond it? Robertson does not know. Perhaps, he admits, there may exist, far off in some medium that is thinner than space, still other universes. But each, presumably, is sealed in its own bubble of space, the light from its stars circulating endlessly, never escaping to reach our astronomers' telescopes. Scientists, briskly dusting their hands of other universes, say that if they exist, they must be penetrated by "nonphysical means...
...marriages during the war, and to general prosperity, the U.S. added 2,800,000 more consumers to its population in 1947. With an estimated population of 144 million today (v. 132 million in 1940), the U.S. has already hit a total the statisticians did not expect it to reach until the 19503. (The Bureau of the Census, whose population estimate of a year ago has proved 2,000,000 too small, gravely laid the unprecedented wartime growth to "maternity benefits, allotments to dependents . . . and occasional furloughs...
...been expected to reach its population peak of 155-165 million by the end of the century. But the "present surge of births," said the Record, indicates that the peak will actually be from 10 to 25 million higher and the crest of the growth curve has now been pushed beyond the year 2000. In effect, the U.S. economy, which was once regarded by some as "mature," has a long way to grow...
...alltime, sure-fire speech ("Old Dependable") was Russell H. Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds," which preached the comforting doctrine that wealth was within the reach of every man: "Get rich, young man, for money is power, and power ought to be in the hands of good people. . . .I say you have no right to be poor. . . ." Conwell gave the lecture 6,000 times, for fees ranging from $100 to $500. Each night, after deducting his expenses, he mailed the money to some "deserving" boy to help him through college. Chautauqua was like that...