Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an advertisement might have appeared in the press last week if Secretary Morgenthau had been unable to get free publicity by a simple announcement. Replaced by a modern automatic light on a breakwater several hundred feet beyond it and turned over to the Treasury as "surplus property," the Cedar Island light was to become the latest of some 100 abandoned lighthouses sold to private owners since the U. S. lighthouse service was created...
...solar radiation, declared that if William Shakespeare had lived in the 20th Century he would have become an astronomer. One thing Astronomer Shakespeare would have had to get straight from the start is the different classes of nebulae. Astronomers apply nebula not only to whole galaxies of stars far beyond the Milky Way. but also to patches of dark or faintly luminous matter within the Milky Way, which is the home galaxy of earthlings. They may be distinguished by calling the local patches galactic nebulae, the great outer star clusters extragalactic nebulae. About 100 of the nebulae within the Milky...
...Edward VIII a wise decision without precedent in the interests of the British Empire. No longer lecturing, working only with graduate students, popular, retiring Professor Andrews at 73 looks forward to publishing the third volume of The Colonial Period in American History next March, the fourth in 1938. Beyond that he says he can promise nothing...
...beginning, Sarah Lawrence was so breezily progressive that its suburban neighbors viewed it askance, protested when it began to expand beyond the Lawrence estate. They complained that students raced through town in fur coats and rolled socks, played the piano and sang until all hours. Sarah Lawrence girls no longer overrun Bronxville. They are now responsible to advisers or "dons," who watch their progress, give them permission to leave when they deserve holidays. When President Warren, stately, handsome daughter of the headmaster of Albany (N. Y.) Academy for boys, succeeded President Marion Coats in 1929, she put through a charter...
...final gesture was also Harry Sinclair's. When Judge James last week found it beyond his lawful power to grant Richfield's reorganization committee more than $160,000 of its $381,000 five-year expense account, Attorney Hurley rose again, announced that Rio Grande Oil would gladly put up the difference...