Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escape the conclusion that our society suffers critically from over-specialization. Our great industrial and financial structure is conducted wholly by specialists. The field of specialization of each business leader is, practically speaking, limited to some one company and the scope of his most general thinking rarely ranges beyond production, sales, and finance. Yet it is a safe generalization that for all such companies no decision or series of decisions made by their chief executives affects their specialized interests so vitally as the complex social forces which make up this national and world-wide catastrophe. We need a new type...
Clearly the policy of league formation will be settled on this battlefield, for should these relations, strained by vindictive verbal disagreements, be cemented, nothing can justly be considered beyond accomplishment in intercollegiate sporting circles. Yale News...
...common among those who favor this "balance-the-budget" theory to point out that just as businesses and families pare down expenditures to the bone and beyond, so ought governments to adopt a similar course. And the heads of federal, state, and city departments have generally bowed to this show of logic. But this is an outworn and economically unsound argument. The time for the government to retrench and take stock is not in a depression, but in times of prosperity. In a period when there is considerably little money passing about, when individuals and private businesses are postponing their...
...Junior Fellows from becoming a group of intellectual snobs impregnated with too elevated an opinion of their own importance. These men are to be brought here for "their promise of notable contribution to knowledge and thought," and in order to "create and atmosphere that will carry intellectual contagion beyond anything now in this country." They are intended to lay a new path to the future, not to be satisfied with the present...
...Government ruthlessly cut expenses, lived within its income. To this necessity they subordinated foreign debts, tariffs, jobless relief, railroads, public works and the large variety of panaceas put forward by more imaginative but less substantial citizens. Bernard Mannes Baruch had sounded the keynote the opening day: "Put Federal credit beyond peradventure of a doubt. . . . No nation ever dared to incur deficits as large as ours. The suspicion is growing that we do not really intend to balance the budget...