Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience gained with a small group of students concentrating in this new field of History and Science will be valuable in pointing the way toward further instruction in the History of Science and Learning beyond the two half-courses now normally available for undergraduates...
Research of whatever sort is the function for the specialist, usually a man trained beyond the limits of an arts college course. It is staff work, confining and exacting and is more in the nature of professional work that any other business function, with financial rewards about the same except for a very few top men. The profit motive extends to the industrial laboratory as it does to other business functions and the freedom one has had in the academic laboratory is greatly curtailed. The practical and experimental scientist rather than the theorist will find satisfaction in industrial research...
According to Chief John J. Darvis of Engine Company 15 the first fire was caused by wooden studding which had been built too close to a defective chimney leading up from a restaurant below. The blase, which never got beyond a suffocating smudge, was quickly controlled...
...fair city of Boston, Ina Ray had little to say beyond mild criticism of the current gubernatorial attack on the Hub's alleged night clubs. Since she does not finish work until late, she explained, there is no place to go, now that things have been shut...
...army officer gave as definition of "stratosphere" the "region where temperature ceases to fall and becomes substantially constant". Laying emphasis on the failure to penetrate beyond a transition zone of light and heavy atmosphere, he expressed a conviction that with the accessibility to a greater elevation a more distinct transformation would be evident. Results of the recent flight yielded valuable specimens of ozone, a high oxygen layer which deflects ultraviolet rays, and revealed the presence of living spores and bacteria at the highest altitudes...