Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week anxiously awaited the most important event in her life since Wolfe landed with his Army under the bluffs of Quebec 180 years ago to wrest the country from the French for Britain. George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, and his Queen, Elizabeth, were coming a-visiting-the first sovereign visit in Canada's history...
Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India-head of an empire that covers one-fourth of the earth's surface and has 500,000,000 subjects, would probably have been the envy of that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost...
...visited are the marvelous glass flowers in Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Each year 250,000 people Oh & Ah at the 847 unique and perfect models which a father and son, Bohemians Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, fashioned during half a century. Much has been made of their "secret." Beyond patient observation, incredible sensitiveness of touch and infinite pains, they had none...
Unethical because it is cynically used to get out of work. It is a lazy man's short-cut to a diploma, a method of cheating for a Harvard degree. Unethical, too, because of the gross commercialization which has taken tutoring far beyond its legitimate limits, which has created a false and unhealthy demand where one should not exist...
Harvard's other first places went to Bill Shallolw, who tossed the hammer out beyond the 164 foot mark for his best throw this year; to Captain Bob Haydock who cleared the bar at six feet in the high jump; to Charley Smith for a 9.9 second Century; to Torby Macdonald in the Furlong; and to Bob Partlow, who upset Yale's Hunt Ethridge in the broad jump with a 22 foot, 9 and one quarter inch leap