Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President is certainly battling with all sorts of powerful elements, new elements in the economic situation that are beyond his control, and his battle will be won only as he is able to retain the confidence of the public. This means the whole public, the moneyed groups as well. For the fight of capital lately has been disturbing and the hesitancy of many holders of government securities to make the exchange under the last conversion plan is another aspect that reveals the importance of getting a better psychology...
...Beyond a doubt the example of fanatic patriotism set by the three Japanese heroes of the Shanghai "human bomb" last year encouraged last week's "human torpedoes." Every Japanese knows the deathless story and it is kept green in the advertisements of "WAKAMOTO-Best...
...reverberation chamber filled with gas. Some of the sound is absorbed by the walls instead of by the gas, but this is calculated and discounted. The sound is picked up by a microphone, amplified, converted into electric current which causes a bulb to glow. If the sound has decayed beyond a certain level the current produced is insufficient to light the bulb. The time is measured between the cessation of tone production and the point in decay at which there is just enough current to cause the glowing of the bulb...
...were thrown open to the first breakfasters. Of late, the murmurs have become more audible, have spread, in fact, throughout all the quadrangles. No definite action has as yet been taken by either Lehman Hall or the Masters, and only the most uncertain count of opinion is on record; beyond reasonable doubt, however, fully three-quarters of the upperclassmen in the Houses are in favor of a dinner hour starting at six, and lasting till seven-thirty. In only two of the Houses, as far as can be found, are there an appreciable number who take dinner between five-thirty...
Robert Grant, Huntington Hartford, and Sandy Davenport, all Seniors, will beyond doubt fill the top three berths, as they did last year. Grant is the present state champion; Hartford, a brilliant but somewhat temperamental player; and Davenport, one of the steadiest players under Harry Cowles' tutelage. It is likely that positions four and five on the A team will be strongly contested for by Sophomores G. G. Glidden, and E. R. Sargent, both of whom did unusually well on their Freshman team...