Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what a rich national asset the Colorado River is and how much bigger and better Los Angeles would be when its waters were thoroughly exploited. He implied that such exploitation should be under Government auspices, but by no syllable did he express hostility towards private operation, or commit himself beyond the findings of "the engineers."* He was careful to add that the "highest dam" and "greatest reservoir" must have the full approval of the six other Colorado River States...
...Happy Mountain boasts nothing unusual in the way of story: in the springtime a virile lad, poet at heart, leaves his narrow mountain home to see the world. In the autumn he comes back a little worse for wear, disillusioned as to the great beyond. More distinctive than the story is the pungent language...
...time we demanded for our workers a 'full dinner pail.' We have now gone far beyond that conception. Today we demand larger comfort and greater participation in life and leisure...
...politically (in terms of the cartoon) was this: the Democratic gallant had, at the valet's suggestion, paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...
...Looking back I was stunned to see the rear engine enveloped in flames, which even as I looked, stretched out like a giant blowlamp rearwards over the seat occupied by Elwood Hosmer and beyond the rudder and tail. In the darkness the whole machine must have appeared like a grotesque red comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload...