Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have retained any vestige of common sense," rasped Chancellor Chamberlain, "we must admit that we have tried to impose on the League a task beyond its powers. The circumstances in which the Italo-Ethiopian dispute began offered a most favorable opportunity to exercise the League of Nation's policy of 'collective security,' but that policy, based on Sanctions, has been tried out and has failed...
...London's Professor E. V. Appleton recorded echoes following intervals of 30 sec., which would indicate that the signals were deflected from some region far beyond the moon...
Privately Sir Arthur admitted: "This business has passed beyond an incident. It is no longer a disturbance, it is a rebellion...
...merit may obtain a U. S. visa merely by showing a contract for U. S. performances to a U. S. Consul. England is not so liberal toward foreign artists, permits them to enter for professional purposes only when there is proof that the applicant has qualifications which place him beyond competition with native artists. The French ruling is almost as stringent. Germany, Poland, Russia refuse to let alien artists take their earnings from the country. Italy bans all foreign performers save those who establish residences...
...good promotion as the discovery in some old Philip Morris copy of a picture of a bellhop over the caption, "Call for Philip Morris." The best live bellhop in Manhattan was then found in the person of a dwarf named John Roventini, whose bellhopping ability was famed far beyond the Hotel New Yorker, where he worked. He is now 25, weighs 54 lb., stands 3 ft. 7 in. high. Known far & wide as Johnnie Morris, he pipes his call over :he radio, passes out packs of cigarets at Banquets, luncheons, openings, reunions, rides around in an Austin with a chauffeur...