Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substance of Through Space and Time was delivered last winter as a course of lectures before the Royal Institution, which invites its annual speakers to discourse "in a style adapted to a juvenile auditory." Sir James took for granted almost no qualifications of his audience beyond ability to understand plain English. Highlights of the indisputable universe as presented by Evangel Jeans...
...slogan, "Make the World Safe for Democracy" died a painless death many years ago, and even, the catch word "For the Good of the People" has been tortured and distorted almost beyond recognition, for recent politicians have struck out "People" and substituted "Political Machine." In Arizona today the country witnesses the unfortunate spectacle of a Governor declaring martial law for no palpable reason. The State Militia has been called to "defend" the site of the Parker Dam project against "encroachments" on the State's rights. Had this step been taken before Election Day, a number of motives might be suspected...
...have heard Harvard's juvenile three centuries mentioned with apology. That is absurd. Three centuries in America look like ten in Europe; beyond a certain point historical foreshortening plays havoc with time, besides which the foundation of a college three hundred years ago in New England was a more creditable achievement than that of an English university six hundred years back. One feels a certain nakedness at first, in the absence of the accepted minutiae,--even of gowns, bicycles and turbans, which contribute to the peculiar flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere...
Outside the hall, beyond range of the speakers, the air is cool. A streetlight gleams on the building next the Curley headquarters. A paint-flaked sign proclaims the name of the building outside the Curley front door; "Hibernia Bank...
Were college authorities to "stand by" student agitators in the nebulous twilight zone between legal right and wrong, the encouragement to radical elements would inevitably have serious consequences and draw universities into a sphere wholly beyond their province...