Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services the Greek government provided in 1931 by Act of Parliament for the training of 200 scholarship boys in the next eight years. Through the School's rural extension work all Greece benefits by the introduction of American methods. The American Farm School exerts an influence far beyond its immediate environs, for the economic stability of paramount importance to present day Greece and to the peace of the Balkans...
Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
Last week a U. S. Coast Guard destroyer steamed out beyond the Virginia Capes to police another exciting treasure hunt. Goal was the Merida, sunk in 210 ft. of water in 1911 with bullion and jewels in her vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L. Bowdoin set out to catch the prize. Aboard he carried stout metal cylinders with movable legs and arms attached, which were to enable his divers to work comfortably at great depths. The weighty apparatus (1,400 Ib. at the surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried...
Proud Bull-Fiddler Brahms wanted his son to be a musician but such tribute as is being paid this year was far beyond the scope of his imagination. Music. Father Brahms hoped, would earn his son a living. He was set to playing the piano almost as soon as he could toddle. Before he reached his teens he could tootle on a horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn...
...removal of the position has been criticized for two reasons: in the first place, Mr. Harris has handled his duties in a thoroughly component manner, and has gone beyond the more letter of his contract, expanding and adding to this functions; in the second place, many feel that existence of the position as it now stands is necessary. The first of these points is indisputable; the second is largely disproved. The Adviser handles every year about ninety cases; he aids the visiting preachers in their work, and cooperates with the Cambridge clergy. These duties, as they stand, are not extensive...