Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consumers to Arms-The price-fixing squabble grew so noisy that the din passed beyond conference-room walls. Percy Straus's sidelong argument that retail selling should be a balanced function which, when efficiently performed, passes along price benefits to the consumer, reached the ears of Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, head of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Committee. She perked up her ears and flatly denounced the whole fair practice section of the Retail Code. It was learned that Dr. Alexander Sachs of NRA's Research Division had confidentially reported to General Johnson that "stop-loss...
...Gingrich, eight years out of the University of Michigan, who like his employers, keeps erratic hours but considers himself more the artist, less the businessman than they. In informal notes surrounding the brilliant table of contents in the first issue of Esquire, Editor Gingrich explained some of its purposes beyond offering an attractive medium to advertisers of men's accessories: "Esquire aims to become the common denominator of masculine interests-to be all things to all men. ... It aims to be among other things, a fashion guide for men. But it never intends to become, by any possible stretch...
...BEYOND-Jeffery Farnol- Little, Brown ($2.50). Sequel to the lush 22-year-old romance, The Broad Highway...
...Doctors were often obliged to steal or buy corpses for anatomical studies. They had very little precise knowledge of what goes on within the body of the living man. Organic chemistry was just blossoming out of alchemy, with only 49 of the 92 elements recognized. Surgeon Beaumont had little beyond simple Nature to help him treat Alexis St. Martin...
...hegira was going forward, and realized what it would do to realty values, he reconsidered his advice to the Mayor. Perhaps their taxes would be disastrous, after all. The Mayor's massive countenance clouded as he vetoed the taxes and rumbled resignedly: "I am confronted with a sitiation beyond my control, wherein serious and pressing conclusions must be made...