Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's moldy brown grass, and as he slowly revolved his mind, he remembered that he had even seen a few buds this morning. Again he stretched, a long, slow stretch, and then relaxed, lying flat on his back, his eyes vaguely focussed on that happy land somewhere beyond the ceiling...
...many genes are involved in transmitting milk ability that it is far beyond mathematical analysis. But Mr. Prentice and his staff were convinced that by assiduous testing under the general laws of genetics they could find what they wanted. They found first, as others had found, that a cow inherits productive capacity from both dam and sire. They found further that, as regards quantity of milk, a cow gets seven-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent has the higher inheritance; as regards butterfat percentage, four-tenths of her inheritance from whichever parent is higher. The dam's inheritance...
...unprecedented proportions, but the Government has unprecedented powers to control it. Whether it will is another question. "A moderate and reasonable expectation is that there will be control and no runaway inflation of the flight-from-the-dollar variety within the next two or three years. Beyond that it is impossible...
When asked the cause of this unusual action, Mr. Campbell said, "Beyond the fact that there is something in the star that is maintaining a high temperature and high brilliance, nothing can be determined. As with any Nova, some internal catastrophe occurred. An explosion and great expansion of the star was the result. Novas are not infrequent. One comes almost every year, but those visible to the marked eye are rarer, perhaps one in ten years. The only Nova I know that can be compared with Herculis is the Nova of 1891, which lasted for about six months...
...considers the skyscraper as one of our distinctive contributions to world-culture. Often Mr. Hitchcock sounds like Ruskin or Lewis Mumford, as when he speaks as a "functionalist": "The new Classical buildings at Washington, the new Gothic or Georgian buildings at the leading universities . . offer no new picture beyond that of the intentions of the nineties. All are splendid, expensive, and meaningless...