Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fellow-members of the Exchange were dumbfounded. No more anti-social act could they imagine. Such a man was beyond the pale. Last week four different brokers sprang forward to seize the bone which had belonged to Trader Goldman by announcing themselves as specialists in the three stocks which had been all his. No stock exchange rule did they violate, for any member may open a "book"' as a specialist in any stock at any time. Usage and small possibilities of profit ordinarily keep members from "horning in" on each other's business. But last week bitter brokers...
This rather raw exhibition impels me to say to you that it is beyond comprehension in these times, in this stage of human instability, that you should display so little tact, to say the least, as to flaunt your anti-semitic tendencies before the eyes of your readers...
...Episcopal Church House, Philadelphia, last week Archdeacon the Rev. James F. Bullitt, uncle of the new Ambassador, flared: "The United States has disgraced itself by establishing relations with a country which is beyond the palea pariah among nations...
...necessity for language requirements, in some form, is obvious enough. Intelligent study, whether in arts or in sciences, demands ready access to great quantities of material not available in English. Beyond this practical consideration is the need to widen the intellectual horizon of the student through a mastery of the thought and expression of another race. More patent, perhaps, and more often questioned is the habit of mental exactness which the study of a foreign syntax develops. The present requirements fulfill all but the last of these needs very imperfectly; the standards of knowledge are not sufficiently advanced to insure...
Steel's NRA code provides that with certain minor exceptions no orders may be booked for delivery beyond the calendar quarter and that cancellations carry a penalty. Thus users of steel have reduced their ordering to a hand-to-mouth basis. Steel's backlog used to be an index of confidence in the business future. The new figures on shipments will have the weakness of almost all indices-the past tense...