Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's empire beyond the seas-her colonies-was taken from her by the Treaty of Versailles, parcelled out in League mandates held by the victorious Allies. In London last week delegates to the World Monetary and Economic Conference were flabbergasted when German Delegate Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. Minister of Economics & Food in the Hitler Cabinet, reaffirmed Germany's pre-War claim to colonies and a "place...
...attempt to realize college training which should be training for life. Before his reforms the college curriculum was a beaten track, the benefits of which were a few tags, a few poor "accomplishments" like those accomplishments prized by the woman of the Nineties, which marked a man as educated. Beyond that the gains of education were largely incidental--a little disciple, a few hard-won pleasures...
...bold blunt aims of Benito Mussolini's "Four-Power Pact" as originally announced (TIME, April 10) were partial revision of the post-War treaties and gradual granting of arms equality to the defeated nations. Last week, emasculated beyond recognition. Il Patto a Quattro was ready to receive the squiggled initials (not signatures) of Il Duce and the ambassadors in Rome of Britain, France, Germany. Because Il Patto is the first treaty of world importance hatched by Benito Mussolini since he made Italy his nest, he turned the initialing into a Roman holiday, had loudspeakers stuck up beside the splashing...
...last week Rollins' faculty was thoroughly agitated. Editor George Barber of the undergraduate weekly Sandspur, "dismayed beyond words," and President Nathan S. French of the student body both resigned from college. Many another student had already planned not to return next year because of a new "unit-cost" plan which will raise tuition fees to about $1,340.* Hamilton Holt seemed doggedly intent on having his own way even if it meant decimating his faculty and losing leading students. With him he had a complaisant board of trustees, save for Mrs. Raymond Robins, Florida bookshop proprietor and wife...
...supporting the American Congress by F. H. LaGuardia. That self-conscious body is now getting on without his official help. There is an excellent article by A. A. Berle, Jr., member of the "brain-trust," titled, "The High Road for Business," which asks of American business leaders something obviously beyond their power, social responsibility, and this for the purpose of business salvation...