Word: beyond
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possible British adversary, pompous, paunchy Sir Thomas Inskip, newly appointed Minister for Defense Coordination, was up, waving a sheaf of papers in one hand, reporting on what he has so far accomplished to get Britain ready for war. Naval Building. The Admiralty has asked for $51,500,000 beyond its original estimate of $349,650,000 to build two battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers, one aircraft carrier, four submarines and an assortment of minor craft. Munitions. Nine hundred private plants have been inspected, 400 of them most carefully. Within a few days most of these will receive contracts for making...
Meanwhile the trouble had extended beyond the Yard. House members and general populace had swelled the crowd to about one thousand. Innocents suffered with the guilty as several youthful proctors were forced to "move along" at the instigation of the minions of the laws...
...undergraduate schools of engineering, nevertheless have flourished and have served the country well in advancing its frontiers of industry. What their students have lacked in educational background these institutions have tried to fill by the introduction of general studies normal to the college without increasing the length of residence beyond four years. The educational weakness of this system has long been recognized and vigorously attacked; but perhaps more vigorously defended because of the effects upon the present economy of engineering schools of changes that would have to be made...
...disgusted with the vague socialism of his close friend Walter Lippmann, and to turn resolutely away from his companion Robert E. Rogers, who had implanted himself solidly on the side of the order that is, and now writes a column for the Boston Evening American. He was to go beyond the teachings of his liberal mentor Lincoln Steffens and to stop writing to his beloved Charles Townsend Copeland because correspondence with a radical was dangerous business in the war years. He bore the seeds of a conviction and as that conviction grew it crowded friendships, pleasures and privileges that were...
...admitted fact that graduation is going to tear well nigh unfillable holes in the Varsity forces. Among those who will run their last races in the I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet and in the Olympic sectional trials--not many will go beyond them--are Milt Green, who has been good for three wins in any meet, Gerry Downer, Norm Cahners, Bob Hall, and Mal Millard...