Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left by years of Tammany rule. "The most corrupt prison in the country, physically and from every other standpoint. . . . A vicious circle of depravity that is almost beyond the ability of the imagination to grasp...
...rich and ancient Boston family, it could be argued that Harvard had become a "rich man's college." James Conant was born in unfashionable Dorchester, Mass., son of a photo-engraver. He has made himself an intellectual aristocrat. Under him Harvard's favored sons will be, beyond argument, the rich in brains...
...launched on their careers at 20. At that age Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...
Smythe demanded that the League compel the Bruins to compensate Bailey, beyond the $6,700 which he received from a benefit game in Boston. The League governors compromised by ordering another benefit game, between the Toronto club and an all-star team made up of players from the other clubs. 2) Eddie Shore, Boston's crack defense man who was suspended for spilling Bailey, returned to the ice against the Rangers in Manhattan. His team had slipped into last place largely because of his absence. Heartened by sympathetic cheers from a gallery which nearly always booed him, Shore recovered...
...Marcus Aurelius in the ancient world, Thomas Aquinas in the medieval, and Bacon, Schophenhauer, or Hegel in the modern, to name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools, and so is given little which is of value in trying to understand present-day thought...