Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maryland suddenly awoke to a three-day bank moratorium as the result of relentless runs. Outlook was for extension beyond its initial period...
Night before he had bumped into an old acquaintance, also named Smith, had spent a queer evening with him. Smith II, though rich beyond avarice's dreams, though magnetic to women, was also, it appeared, contemplating suicide. Smith I was too intent on his own plans to pay much attention to him. Next morning he methodically carried them out; but just when he was about to take the fatal step a storm struck, and instinctively he tried to save the boat. By the time he had succeeded he was too exhausted to kill himself that day. Furthermore, he stumbled...
...middlewestern banks, and to such a strain upon other parts of the banking system, especially in the-East, that similar protective measures became universally necessary. The superficiality of this explanation makes it peculiarly suitable for promulgation by bankers and a subsidized press. But to go just one step beyond this "lack of confidence" is to discover the utter incompetence and frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American banking system. Incompetent management led to the failure of hundreds of small, undercapitalized state banks in the West which folded up at the first signs of receding prosperity...
...worry about the future of English literature," said T. S. Eliot in an interview given to the CRIMSON yesterday. "People of today," he continued, "seem to me to worry too much about the future, I mean that part of the future which is beyond the scope of our own activity. Such worrying is neither good reason nor good Christianity, nor is it a good exercise for literary criticism...
...fewer have heard how a student, beyond doubt a graduate student, met the President and his Phantom by the Charles. The student was, as students often are; happy. "How d'ye do, Mr. Lowell," he said, bowing deeply, and then,bowing more deeply with more gravity, "How d'ye do, Mr. Lowell...