Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slim hard wrists and ankles, long spatulate hands. No one person is greatly responsible for her proficiency in heterogeneous sports. Her manager and coach, Melvin J. McCombs, is director of athletics for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co. Her father. Ole Didrikson, is Scandinavian, a onetime sailor. Beyond a tendency to use explicit language and to despise small girls who play with dolls, Wonder Girl Didrikson's demeanor during intervals between her physical exertions is not unfeminine. She likes to cook, dance, sew. Last year she constructed for herself a box-plaited dress. It won first prize at the Texas...
...admission because they are financially unable to support themselves during their undergraduate years, it is usually accused of snobbery. When Yale and Harvard first contemplated making that decision they were so accused. Such action, however, is not snobbery; it is merely the result of the university's realization that, beyond a certain number, men seeking employment from the institution they attend are a drag upon their associates and themselves...
...colleges, by a process of protective coddling, unfit their students for effective participation in a calloused world. The head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become...
...great man was explaining the custom of "plucking," but the Vagabond heard not. Somewhere in the vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom...
...comprising Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Missouri Valley States. For holdup insurance in this district a small-town banker will pay ten times as much as he would in the safe & sane East-$20 per thousand up to $10,000, $10 per thousand beyond that...