Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played for Toledo in 1922, managed the team for part of the season of 1923. Last winter, when his reputed $23,000 salary was cut 40%, First Baseman Terry again threatened to retire. Manager McGraw called him "ungrateful." If Manager Terry had any specific plans beyond "giving the boys a break," he failed to divulge them last week...
...tung oil production. Hankow is the biggest tung oil port and the Hankow quotations are read by paint men throughout the world. Its industry boomed in the 1920's parallel with the U. S. building boom. The producing area for the Hankow supply is up the Yangtze River beyond the famed gorges in Szechwan Province next to Tibet. The big city in the area is Wanhsien. Opium and rice are the district's two other products. The nuts are gathered by coolie labor and the oil extracted in crude wooden presses made of hollowed logs. It is carried...
...technique is not excellent either. Tricks of the camera compensate for bad photography, and the many unusual shots, as that of the laborer removing his shirt, revealing a sinewy silver-sweated back, are beyond praise. But tedium reigns when too many impressionistic scenes of rushing water and driving storm appear. The sound effects are well executed: one can almost taste the cinders and smell the reek of the locomotive...
Over the bad lands of West Texas the Akron rode out storms which delayed her a day on her first transcontinental trip, but which demonstrated beyond doubt the ship's structural strength and airworthiness. Numerous alarmed Texans reported the ship laboring in distress. Not realizing that the safest place for a dirigible is the air, amateur ground crews were rushed together. But Commander Rosendahl radioed: "Please inform both San Angelo and Randolph field that no ... landing is intended but their efforts are appreciated very much...
...pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films are planned as addenda to regular instruction in institutions of limited facilities. Production of the first films will begin immediately. Later, other departments will be filmed...