Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkness puffing glowing cigarets until the sky paled and they could see. With the morning light it looked as if the plains below were on fire. Long streamers of smoke led out in parallel columns from the Italian camp to the river, then across to the mountains beyond. Dust clouds from the feet of marching...
...lofty balcony snapped open, and out stepped Honorary Corporal Benito Mussolini of the Fascist Militia in that uniform, alone except for two soldiers who flanked him with rifles at present arms. "Blackshirts of the Revolution!" roared II Duce, "men and women of all Italy! Italians all over the world-beyond the mountains, beyond the seas! Listen...
...week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains too remote to be attacked by any European power. Szechwan Province, ringed by mountains and penetrated by no railway, will be developed by the Generalissimo, say his friends, into "a great, self-supporting and strategic unit." Larger than France, it is also more populous, and so distant...
...down by Japanese machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official diplomatic recognition to the puppet Empire of Manchukuo, carved by Japan out of part of North China beyond the Great Wall...
...Illinois, where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less as an art to be practiced than as a message to be preached, placing it on an eminence almost beyond human reach. When William Marion Reedy, after reading the first Spoon River poems, heaped extravagant praise upon them, Masters thought that his friend was being ironical...