Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Future of Marriage in Western Civilization develops his theory that marriage, which he defined in an earlier volume as "a more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of offspring," is fundamental in human society, growing out of the necessities of life in primitive and modern communities. This theory brings him into opposition with such writers as Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that...
There on the promenade, with the St. Lawrence spread out below and the green hills beyond, 5,000 Canadians burst into French and English cheers as the Presidential party appeared. From the heights of the Citadel boomed a 21-gun salute...
...affair of the Italian bombers was easily the outstanding event of a bloody and nerve-wracking week. It not only meant that Spain's Civil War had now passed beyond the Pyrenees, but that for the first time, Fascism, like Communism, had become an international force. No labor struggle, no class warfare can break out anywhere in the world without expressions of sympathy, and sometimes cash contributions from Moscow's Third International. Italy now was apparently undertaking to support a foreign outbreak of Fascism in the same way. Correspondents with the northern rebel armies near Burgos were quick...
...homesick return after the War: spine stiffens with the remembered chill of the offshore Atlantic and the jag of framehouses in the west above the invisible land and spiderweb rollercoasters and the chewinggum towers of Coney and the freighters with their stacks way aft and the blur beyond Sandy Hook...
...spinning is done outside of New England. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with existing wage differentials. No management could by any ingenuity overcome the $2.56 average labor differential . . . particularly fatal to us, as we have no mills in the South. . . . [Our problems] are beyond the power of the management to solve...