Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down only a little way. "Where then do they lie in time, the beginnings of human civilization? How old is it? . . . We have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there are records which go back far beyond history's short memory, "pious abbreviations" of real events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar...
...Cambridge there was no rest. The endless parade of trunks and suitcases jarred the heat into shimmering waves. Stillness was not for Cambridge. Somewhere out beyond the destination of the trunks and bundles, there lies the the quiet that the Vagabond sought. This week, he thought, was the end. Then he could seek the rest of the weary. For the Vagabond was weary. He was tired of exams, he was tired of Freshmen packing, he was tired of Seniors bidding hasty goodbyes. He thought again of mountain lakes, of leafy lanes...
This afternoon, on the one bit of "Old Yale," Sophomores and Freshmen will gather together for the solemn occasion of the handing on of the Yale Fence. In these days of tradition-killing transition it behooves Sophomores and Freshmen not only to enjoy the ceremony, but to look beyond it to the more weighty significance of the Fence Orations...
Shirely Temple, and God only knows where they found such a wonder, is just the kind of five year-old you would want for a sister if you bad to have one, and the present rovlower can think of no higher compliment. The poise of the child is truly beyond belief, and must be seen to be appreciated...
...Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur. Pillsbury already had served four years on this job, was reassigned to serve four more. But attached to the OK was a slip of paper on which was scrawled: "There are to be no further reassignments of general officers beyond the regular four-year period." Below the scrawl were the initials...