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reach
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It reached its apogee in a 1924 speech to the Royal Society of St George.
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At midnight on Friday, December 12, 1919, that rocket reached its apogee .
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In terms of artistic production the city of Paris reached its apogee between 1250 and 1330.
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Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity - or perhaps not quite.
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Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee .
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At apogee its radial velocity reaches zero, so it once again has a purely horizontal velocity.
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At any point on the ellipse between apogee and perigee a spacecraft will have both a horizontal and a radial velocity.
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At midnight on Friday, December 12, 1919, that rocket reached its apogee .
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It reached its apogee in a 1924 speech to the Royal Society of St George.