Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration is apparently going ahead with its attempt to restore prosperity by egregious expenditure. It is said glibly that this puts the burden on the taxpayer of the future. Beyond very grave doubts whether any expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...
...galleries cheered. Jubilant Hearstlings tumbled over each other in their rush to telephone San Simeon. No less than 15 Senators telephoned congratulations to Detroit. Local telegraph offices announced that since Father Coughlin's first speech two days before they had handled over 60,000 telegrams beyond their ordinary quota...
...good reason that he wanted to see on what terms his Reconstruction Finance Corp. would be given a new lease on life. Neither Mr. Jones nor any one else had any doubt that the one Recovery agency which has been an unquestionable success in its field would be continued beyond the date on which the law said it was to go out of business...
...international fraternity of erudite men & women unite in the belief that a yellowed tooth, a scrap of papyrus or a piece of broken pottery may be a treasure beyond price. Doings of diggers lately...
Most historians consider typhus one of the oldest of human scourges, running back even beyond the Golden Age of Greece. Dr. Zinsser does not agree with them. According to his thesis, the disease developed among wild rats in the Orient, did not reach Europe as a human epidemic until the 15th Century. In the five subsequent centuries. Professor Zinsser calculates that typhus has caused more death and misery than cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other human pestilence. Therefore he rates this mass disease as Plague No. 1, born in filth and spread by vermin...