Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They responded in five minutes. He had the engines slowed down, then brought the ship about so that the wind was on his quarter. He ordered stewards to go through the corridors banging on pots and pans to awaken passengers, get them into the boats. When the fire passed beyond control, Captain Warms and his bridge force leaped down on the forecastle head, stayed there until taken off at noon...
...readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...
TIME airwriter erred. In TIME for Aug. 13, under Aeronautics, this appeared: ". . . it was the Sikorsky S-42, world's largest amphibian." The 542 is neither an amphibian nor the world's largest anything. It is the largest American-built flying boat and, beyond a doubt, outperforms any ship of its kind in the world, but that is all. World's largest amphibian is Sikorsky Model 540, better known as the Yankee and Caribbean Clippers. 542 will always be strictly a flying boat. TIME airwriter undoubtedly mistook beaching wheels for landing gear...
Such was the tale. The details might be denied one by one as fabulous but their total effect was to dramatize beyond any denial the inward convulsions through which NRA is passing. About questions of impersonal policy, a highly personal contest was raging. This two-fold fight was not between Hugh Johnson and Donald Richberg alone. It was, in effect, a game of mixed doubles...
...gold policy, no devaluation of the dollar. And he twitted: "The financiers seem to have taken seriously reports from South Africa, China and Timbuctoo as to what I am going to do over each weekend. Why those places should know exactly what I am going to do is beyond me. I just wonder where some of those rumors come from...