Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination of the J. P. Morgan & Co., purchasing agents of Great Britain during the World War, we developed documentary evidence which explains the in evitable cablegram of Ambassador Page of March 5, 1917, which stated that ". . . I think that the pressure of this approaching crisis has gone beyond the ability of the Morgan financial agency for the British and French governments. Perhaps our going to war is the only way in which our present prominent trade position can be maintained and panic averted." Documents that explain why our Ambassador in London was placed in the position of extending that advice...
...single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have had it for a long time and they will carry it to the grave, and even let us hope, beyond...
...eloquence was matchless because he meant every word of it. Not for him was the Hollywood-Rudyard Kipling version of the Empire, compounded of pukha sahibs, Gunga Din, the little brown men, and domains beyond the sea-for him Empire was a living faith, a political necessity, a way of life, a practical program and sometimes almost a religion. Son of brilliant, sensitive Lord Randolph who died young, of a handsome, American mother, Young Churchill was groomed to rule from the start, never let himself or his friends forget it. At 20, after Harrow and Sandhurst, he held a dinner...
...Beyond the horizon of strictly class activities lies the broad field of College extra-curricular organizations. Annually hundreds of Freshmen turn out for undergraduate publications, managerial competitions, and a host of organizations ranging from the Circolo Italiano to the Mountaineering Club...
...specialist becomes curious about a subject lying beyond his limited horizon and takes a course in it of his own free will, that is another story; or if he argues about it with a fellow student and then starts to read on his own account, that is best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test...