Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declared (5-to-4) the Railway Pension Act unconstitutional for going beyond the Federal Government's power to regulate interstate commerce...
...find later that, like the victorious Allies of 1918, he had lost more than he had won. For the scale of wages he imposed after the strike ruined that portion of the coal industry that was subject to them and the ruin of the industry ruined the union almost beyond repair...
...long way to Northern Rhodesia, any way you go. South Africa bumps northward from the Cape, in a succession of plateaus separated by rivers, until it drops into the Congo basin. Beyond Cape Town, beyond the veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope...
Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
...saved him from impediment in his early experiments with the telegraph. . . . Had Morse been a physicist with a physicist's specialized knowledge of [contemporary] theory ... it is quite possible that his great plan of making the universe 'by kingdom right wheel' might never have passed beyond the stage of a dinner table conversation. It reminds me of the validity of a recent saying by Mr. Owen D. Young that our greatest assets are the things we do not know...