Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these days, cocky Walter Reuther might reach out his good little right hand for Phil Murray's job. At 40, he was now the most dazzling light in the C.I.O. firmament...
...version of last winter's Moscow Conference, which accomplished nothing but the propagation of international ill will. Britain's Ernest Bevin was of like mind. He said last week: "No one can accuse me of being impatient . . . but there comes an end." If the conference does not reach agreement, "I am not going to be a party to keeping the world in chaos...
...units assigned Harvard represent a large percentage of the total number of apartments available to veterans living on their government allotments. The great majority of married veterans cannot compete for apartments on any but the lowest rent scale and Federal housing was designed to place decent living quarters within reach of their meager income. It seems grossly unfair that the University sees fit to allow a $10,000 per year faculty member a higher priority than the man for whom the project was intended...
...American literature courses as his last novel. The course reading list will be the proper place for it, since--like Dreiser's other posthumous novel "The Bulwark"-- "The Stoic's" chief importance is historical rather than literary. The jacket blurb to the contrary, "The Stoic" simply does not reach the stature of "The Financier" or "The Titan," its predecessors in "The Trilogy of Desire." In concluding what Parrington called "a colossal study of the American businessman," Dreiser tells those familiar with the earlier volumes little they do not already know about Frank Algernon Cowperwood, his hero. As for the reader...
While praising Harvard's excellent record at a time when 'destructive pranks reach an all-time high," Dean Bender felt that the perennial spirit of havoc that precedes each Yale game demands a clarification of University policy regarding the unlimited use of spray-guns...