Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grant, which will be in effect for the next five years, provides for an outright bequest of $200,000, and beyond this a maximum of $100,000 to be matched by the Rockefeller Fund against whatever the committee receives through gifts, the government, or other sources...
...Emilio de Bono, the Italian Commander-in-Chief. waiting to be relieved of his command rode ten miles beyond Makale toward Alaji, next important town in the Italian advance from the North. Through his huge staff telescope he could see it distinctly. He and the respectful officers round him knew that the General, about to become a Marshal, would never enter it as an Italian commander. Then the old man, leaving his Chief of Staff, General Melchiade Gabba, in command, drove through cheering lines of blackshirted Italian workmen along the roads they had just built, toward the coast and Italy...
Politically the new decrees place Jews & Jewesses in the same category, lumping them with German criminals and imbeciles beyond the pale of citizenship, franchise and eligibility for State office. Complicated fractional categories for fixing the exact status of part-Jews as to political rights and marriage make the decrees a maze but a great pair of scissors is provided to cut all Gordian knots. Realmleader Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year...
...local harbors are agreed upon, namely that the close haircut is losing cassia among the students. Only one in 10 now asks for it. Mr. Breen believed that the reason for this phenomenon is that outsiders are adopting it, and that Harvard men want nothing in common with those beyond the pale...
American preparatory education is rapidly reaching a point comparable to that of England. Our private schools and advanced high schools are now able to carry students far beyond the requirements of the college entrance boards, but here lies the fallacy in the present system. If they do so, the students are forced to retrace their steps and cover once again the well-known ground...