Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regiment, 1200 strong, will reach the Huntington Avenue railroad station in a four-section train, about 9 o'clock in the morning for the Harvard-Army football game...
...been a loafer. Silent, clever, he has originated many an advertising idea. Last year he saw a fat woman munching what he presumed to be either a sweet or a pickle while nearby was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. Thenceforth came a sales-slogan ("Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet") on which millions were spent. Whether or not Mr. Hill is personally responsible for the newest Lucky Strike campaign ("An ancient prejudice has been removed") is not known. One explanation of the end of the $6 cigaret price was that leaf tobacco is more expensive this year...
...fact that undergraduate feeling, in general as well as in the particular instance of football, is almost universally grossly misinterpreted must be taken into consideration. Students seldom reach the heights of enthusiasm about anything, and they never stay on those heights for long. Whatever minor evils it causes as a temporary distraction, football certainly does not have and never can have a great enough hold on the undergraduate permanently to warp his point of view or seriously to interfere with his education...
...week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball go by again and again to fall on baselines where he could not reach it and he saw his own apparently ungettable shots come back to him as steadily as though he were playing them off a wall. In the next two sets Richards did what he had to do - he scored his aces twice. He won those sets, and the crowd, understanding that...