Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis on his delineation of Huldy, for the brief strokes with which he has painted her arouse great interest and are executed with an apparently unconscious brilliancy. The reader gets a brief glance at a woman with sleepy eyes who would "rather be wanted than needed". Who "was vicious, beyond doubt; yet--there were not the marks of vice upon her, but rather of abounding life and deep undisciplined vitality...
...benefit from Mr. Darrow's findings lies in the fact that they have brought the problems of the NRA before the country in a provocative fashion. Unfortunately, he has done it in such a way as to discount his revelations immediately. Although Mr. Darrow has obviously gone beyond his province, it is difficult to realize why Mr. Roosevelt appointed him. In short, he has gone a long way to destroy helpful criticism in its effectiveness...
...when the Federal Trade Commission began to segregate reorganization from new issues, registration of new securities amounted to $460,000,000, of which less than $80,000,000 was actually passed on to the public. Of the other $380,000,000, some were shoe string promotions which never got beyond the Commission files, some were privately sold, some will take years to peddle. The rest gathers dust in corporation vaults. The three most notable cases of new industrial financing under the Securities Act were: American Water Works & Electric for $15,000,000; Mathieson Alkali for $6,232,000; Glenn...
...Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across the grim Gobi, finding his way by the bones and droppings of camels. Troubled by mirages, once nearly dying of thirst when he dropped his waterskin, Hsuan made himself so popular everywhere he went that...
...armament makers are no longer, like Alfred Krupp or Sir Basil Zaharoff in his younger days, humble petitioners of government, hat-in-hand solicitors of orders--their influence is so infiltrated into the industrial, social, and political affairs of the nation that they have power in some ways beyond the State; a power so mighty that they are all but able, for their own individualistic reasons, to sweep the State along in a course of action against its own will. They are all but anonymous, these men. They are displeased by publicity and are well able to enforce their displeasure...