Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Underrated all season, snowed under by Army and Dartmouth, Harvard rallied amazingly four weeks ago to tie Princeton 14-to-14. Last week, rallying again in the last half of a game apparently lost beyond all hope. Harvard found itself on the way to tying Yale identically. The score, 14-to-0 at the beginning of the third quarter, had become 14-10-7 on Struck's touchdown and conversion. Now, with less than three minutes to play, it was 14-to-13, on a pass from Oakes to Ford. Struck dropped back to kick. The whistle blew...
...good man, a little possessed, who was doing some religious penance. Carefully totting up each soul he had saved every year, Andrew was inclined to be doubtful about the women converts. "They haven't much real idea of what they are doing," he explained. "It's beyond them...
...hopes. In the second period, Fullback Steve Toth place-kicked a field goal from Michigan's 17-yd. line. After that an inspired Michigan team that had lost all but one of its previous games this season and shown nothing much in any of them, played beyond itself until three minutes before the game ended. Then a fumble recovered by Northwestern's Zitko and a 30-yd. run by Kovatch put the ball on Michigan's 6-yd. line. After three attempts, Toth carried it across for the final score, Northwestern 9, Michigan...
...however, nearly $450,000,000 worth of gold has been landed in the U. S., and excess reserves have mounted approximately the same amount. A continuation of gold imports at that rate for any length of time would boost excess reserves to such a figure that they would be beyond reach of the Reserve Board's present instruments of control...
Another and just as effective way of pushing profits beyond the reach of the tax collector is to pay bonuses to workers. As a matter of practical industrial relations it is almost imperative to give employes something extra when they know that stockholders are being showered. Bonuses, ranging from the $10,000,000 appropriated by General Motors last fortnight to common Christmas presents planned in hundreds of little businesses, have a greater vogue this year than ever before...