Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liberty's conclusion: During the years when his family would normally have been picking a mate for him, Wales was serving his country, in the War, as a supersalesman of the Empire, as understudy to his aging father. Now, beyond the marrying-off age, he is interested only in commoners. He will not marry nor will he abdicate. He will be Great Britain's "Bachelor King." "It is a fact that the Prince Charming of the world is gone forever. In his place stands the Serious Prince...
Comrade Litvinoff was hovering last week just beyond the Swiss frontier in the tiny French village of Douvaine, waiting for M. Barthou to send the word that would mean for Bolshevik Russia a grand entry with appropriate nourish into the League of Nations. In one of their frequent talks by telephone last week. Comrade Litvinoff grew so impatient that he hung up on M. Barthou in vexation, but the Gascon grandfather only chuckled, "Tiens, tiens! Ces enfants! They must learn patience...
...forms and early growth of human behavior patterns." A baby's mind grows like his body, and like his body, his psychological make-up is an organic structure. It is revealed at any stage in behavior forms. Infantile behavior is vastly complex, but not, Dr. Gesell was certain, beyond recording...
...back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground away, and in the Atlas every movement of hands, arms, legs, feet, heads, posteriors is described in formal and scientifically pompous language. Eight paragraphs are required to detail one stair-climbing sequence lasting...
...three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals...