Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Funds extorted from the taxpayer should not be sunk in the briny waters of Passamaquoddy and withheld from the Justice Department's Bureau of Information at the same time. We are living in an administration of unprecedented liberality with public money and unwieldy bureaucracies. The alphabet has been twisted beyond recognition and 'Brain Trusters' have played havoc with age old American institutions, but the one shining light of usefulness and of service to the public is the "G" men under the leadership of Mr. Hoover. The American public owes it to itself to see that nothing is allowed to interfere...
...Iran's tall, autocratic King of Kings Reza Shah Pahlavi, 58, gets older, his temper gets shorter. Less & less can he bring himself to humor the outlying world beyond his vast desert land, larger than Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed...
Xerxes listed among his vassals "the Ionians that dwell in the Sea and those that dwell beyond the Sea." This indicates that the tablets were written between 485 B. C., when he mounted the throne, and 480 when, bamboozled by Themistocles, he sent his fleet to be soundly whipped by the Greeks at Salamis. After that his empire fell stagnant and he was finally murdered by a vizier...
...Beyond this, the eight thousand men who contributed last year suggests the almost universal appreciation, by Harvard graduates, of the value of education in the social scheme, and the equally universal desire to improve and assist education at Harvard, no matter how hardly come by or how relatively small the token. Support of privately-endowed education must be more than material. It must have social and psychological props, and the thousands contributing illustrate the soundness of its foundation...
...Beyond saying that he was "frequently and desperately sea-sick," was apt to disobey orders in action and take credit for the brilliant strokes of subordinates, Biographer Bowen does not attack the naval ability of her hero; but of her hero's character and that of his doxy she leaves few shreds. Nelson was "ignorant of everything save his chosen profession, uneducated save in the school of war, scarcely a gentleman, and vulgar-souled . . ." but "... a brilliant air of being above his fellows, a flash of some genius and heroism." To Nelson, Emma was a goddess: "He would never...