Sentence:  But during the second half of the century its fortunes <WSD>reached</WSD> a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it - `` paper , type , and all '' - for $ 1000 it was a 16 - page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany , and with only some 2000 subscribers . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  reach a destination, either real or abstract