Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government and to His Majesty, was the story which the Indian National Congress wrote by unanimous acts at Faizpur. This Voice of India said with its 60,000 throats, "No, no and NO!" A problem was therefore presented to British correspondents in Bombay, but not a problem beyond their powers to solve. Not only over British wires but over the U. S. circuits of United Press, the story of the Conference's three-times-No verdict went out with this lead sentence: BOMBAY (UP)-ENTHUSIASM RAN HIGH THROUGHOUT INDIA TODAY OVER THE ANTICIPATED VISIT OF KING GEORGE VI, EMPEROR...
Through the current hearings on the Glenn Frank case the nation can scize its opportunity to grasp the issues involved. Clarification of these issues has been overdue since the first whispers of the controversy burst into a roar heard far beyond the borders of Wisconsin. The core of the conflict is simple. The Regents must decide whether the undeniable progress made by the University under Frank's direction outweighs the President's alleged mismanagement of intra-University disputes...
...college, like any other small unit in society is open to attacks from without. This small concession to the outside world admittedly has little beyond vague nuisance value to the liberal, self-disciplined undergraduate majority. Particularly in view of the recent stormy history and stringent regulation, the price is not exhorbitant and the return is impressive. In this way the University has protection against the turbulent, ill-disciplined minority who might otherwise raise havoc with its fair name and hence with the much-prized liberties of the majority. As with any truly liberal law, the majority, in this case most...
...important event of 1936. It will carry the sight and mind of science man at least one million light years into space, and that is a long distance.* ... I think mankind will plod along about as it has been doing, slowly, following some plan mapped out far away, and beyond our understanding. Man should find comfort in the fact that he has done pretty well...
...lotteries. From there it spread into the adjacent colored quarter, where it has kept a large part of the population poor ever since. Metropolitan Life has had trouble with wholesale lapsing of insurance policies throughout Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure promotion of the numbers hawkers, who have enlisted a salesman in nearly every second-rate cigar and drug store, widened their distribution to include porters, office boys, taxi drivers, elevator operators...