Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valor goes to Frederick W. Gerber, Sergeant Major of Engineers from 1839 to 1871, who was cited "for distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated for that reason...
...that you omitted the name of General Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps. General Butler is one of only two men, as far as I know, who have received, free from all politics and favoritism, two Congressional Medals of Honor for courage and daring in action above and beyond the call of duty...
...President beamed. Charlie, he said meaningly, was "hooked," would not need a job for a long time to come. And it was evident that if Franklin Roosevelt was indifferent to what might pass last week in Congress, he still had a lively interest in the campaign which lay beyond Congress' closing...
...demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that those industries which have been most successful in reducing costs of goods and services . . . have at the same time paid the highest wage and have continually raised that wage through evolution. It would naturally follow from what our President says that if the reduction of costs decreases consumption, an increase in costs should increase consumption. It is impossible to reconcile that philosophy with the past record and today's experience...
...Paramount and Fenway we find two unexciting films, namely, "Brides Are Like That", a harmless and mildly amusing romance and "The Country Beyond", a saga of the Canadian Mounted writen by James Curwood and just what you'd imagine. Conrad Veidt stars in the Fine Arts presentation of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", the ancient Jerome K. Jerome allegorical story telling about the bringing of sweetness and light into the lives of a bitter boarding house crew; for those with a quaint sense of humor...