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Word: reaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make. And because he does not crouch down to block the ball, a lot of grounders dribble between his legs. He also can't seem to break his habit of catching put-out throws two-handed. The Cardinals' Stan Musial, for example, gets a far longer reach by taking throws singlehanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Council Treasurer Ray A. Goldherg '48 said last night that college participation in the fund drive will have to reach a 98 percent level in order to achieve the $25,000 figure. An intensive publicity campaign, featuring door-to-door appeals, will begin this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Starts $25,000 Fund Drive | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...long does he think it will take, by this retrograde movement, this reverse of evolution, for civilization to reach the ideal existence of the cave man, or better still, the hairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to School | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...thing wrong with Margaret Rosezarian Harris was that she sometimes couldn't reach the right notes-but she would grow. And her appreciative audience thought that her phrasing, rhythm and pedaling (on extended pedals) were already surprisingly adept for a three-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigy | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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