Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Great-Hearted Adolf had departed amid pomp, Nazi motor manufacturers admitted that nothing cheaper than an $800 car is made in Germany. This, representing an investment of 2,000 marks, remains definitely beyond the reach not only of the Fatherland's "little man," but also of the Fatherland's average workman who earns, according to German statisticians, about six marks per day or barely 2,000 marks per year...
...heart itself does not die beyond recall until Death has held it ten to 20 minutes Other way stations in the schedule ot Death according to Dr. Hyman: skeletal muscle two to four hours; stomach and intestines, six to ten hours; cartilage, ten to 24 hours; bone, 24 to 72 hours; skin (including sweat glands, hair follicles and nails), several days...
...Sanger outwitted Premier Mussolini of Italy, who treasures fecundity, by traveling as Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee. "Of course," she gleefully boasted soon as she was beyond his reach: "I did not get into Rome. But I managed to hold many private meetings on birth control. In Venice and Milan I had more demand for secret lectures before women's clubs than I could supply...
...give five-minute radio talks on any subject she pleased. She rejected the offer. Three "feminine hygiene" manufacturers last year spent $250,000 advertising in general magazines alone. Five makers of one device sold $35,000,000 worth last year. What the whole commerce amounts to is beyond computation, for most of the business remains furtive...
...artificial prices--a dubious policy for our international well being--is having serious effects in China. Although economists predicted an upheaval in China's silver market, Government financiers did their best to be little such predictions while the silver purchase act was pending. The cataclysm is now reaching proportions beyond even the most dire forecast...