Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese process of slow torture known as "the 10,000 Deaths" would be an insufficient expiation of his monstrous crime in kidnapping the Dictator. After this the Government released...
There, directly beneath the Giannini throne, Banker Mount watched the start & finish of the Depression battle for control of Transamerica, which owns among many other things Bank of America. Protagonists in this historic struggle were Amadeo Peter Giannini and Elisha Walker, who entered Transamerica by way of its investment banking affiliate, Bancamerica-Blair, Mr. Walker having been head of the Blair part. Banker Walker and Banker Giannini differed on a fundamental point. It was Mr. Walker's theory that banks should be divorced from holding companies. Mr. Giannini had spent a great deal of effort doing just the opposite...
Oriignals Sought Beneath Surface...
Similarly in another instance the X-ray shadowgraphs probed beneath the surface of a sentimental and flat painting of a "Madonna and Child" attributed to the 15th century Italian, Antonazzo Romano, and discovered underneath it a much more forceful painting. When an accurate copy has been made of the outer painting, or when a colour photograph has been taken, the Fogg technical staff plans to clean off the outer layers of paint and reveal the original and more important work...
...Beneath His guiding star...