Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most uncouth and whimsical forms," is the way Horace Walpole described the chair common to the county of Chesire and similar to the chair of the President of Harvard. The chair, which has been used in the College for the purpose of conferring degrees on Commencement day for time beyond the memory of man, is to be used next Monday when Mr. Conant is inaugurated in the Faculty Room in University Hall...
...particular newspapermen who conceived and executed yesterday's coup are beyond consure. No decent words ill them. The usual human instructs of decency, and the decent symbols by which they are expressed, have thus lost meaning and significance. The Transcript says, transparently enough: "The picture men were asked by Charles Whitesido...to limit themselves to pictures of young Roosevelt in a group ...."This agreement they inexcusably violated, and then turned their rebuff into copy quite as inexcusable. The temper of a nation which demands from its newspapers photographs of women in the electric chair presents a curious problem in psychology...
...many undergraduates the function of public speaking is considered confined to a certain small group of students who enjoy talking in general and the public eye in particular. And yet it is a mistake for educated men to begin life in the world beyond the University without being versed in the simple laws of speaking. This course, though labelled Public Speaking, is not intended to train men to be future Websters, Henrys, or Sewards The training of the course affords students who can face a group of persons without embarrassment, and present information that is clearly thought...
...back on his heels, out of a job. He became president of Morris Plan Corp., the Manhattan organization with Morns Plan banks in over 100 cities making small "character loans" to working men. Now as president of General American Life, he gives up banking for its cousin insurance, returns beyond the Mississippi to rebuild success upon the plains...
...mother, father, sister, two brothers. As a Notre Dame graduate he went to Tulsa, served two terms as county prosecutor, once had a murder conviction set aside by a judge who ruled that "the prosecutor's closing argument was so eloquent as to have carried the jury beyond justice." For 20 years before his appointment to the Department of Justice in charge of criminal cases, Pat Malloy busied himself profitably in the oil industry...