Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordance with the current size limit, no housing allowance has been made for the extra men, the total number of which Watson estimated would reach 225 by registration next month. All the men are eligible for rooms in undergraduate dormitories or Houses...
...going to blow a loud whistle on Lieut. General John C. H. Lee," wrote Scripps-Howard's roving Columnist Robert Ruark from Leghorn, Italy last week. "I hope my beefs reach the eyes of General Lee's bossman, Ike Eisenhower, and I hope furthermore that the General gets a royal eating-out.* He's got one coming...
Most permanent correspondents in Italy (many of them ex-servicemen themselves) would not go as far as Visitor Ruark (who spent 36 hours in Leghorn, eight days relaxing at Capri). But his tooting was loud enough to reach Ike Eisenhower, who promptly ordered the Army's Inspector General, Major General Ira T. Wyche, to take off for Leghorn immediately...
...examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
...Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing on, as the Indians may have done, until wind and currents actually cast it on the beach of some island, the Kon-Tiki expedition hopes to reach Tahiti, 750 miles dead ahead...