Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to help you, but the Supreme Court wouldn't let me. If you farmers want AAA and you workers want the Wagner Bill and you miners want the Guffey Bill, you must help enact a constitutional amendment putting the Federal Government's powers beyond the reach of the Supreme Court...
...book called Harold's Adventures, Harold Hales likes to tell his friends that he is the original of Arnold Bennett's The Card, known also as "Denry the Audacious," a brash young man who in two Bennett novels made his way by his wits. But beyond all this Harold Hales wanted some foolproof device to make Posterity remember him with respect. Forty years ago he found...
...front cover) Astronomy deals with Earth, and with everything discernible beyond Earth. Its task is detecting, locating, describing and classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress...
...Shapley was president of the Commission on Nebulae and Star Clusters, celestial departments of which he is a consummate master. He reported and commended surveys of galaxies of stars beyond the Milky Way ("island universes") undertaken at a half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years...
...colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes us. Beyond that is metaphysics, and whatever approach thereto the individual may prefer. Most astronomers are agnostics. Not atheists- that presumes more conviction than religion does. Scientists cannot have faith. Ours is a perpetual inquiry; any acceptance of faith-in a scientific or a metaphysical or an esthetic sense-brings inquiry...