Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolled down a shoulder of the mountain leaving a great blue heron hanging alone in the sky. He surveys with evident satisfaction the long line of foothills that stretch away like ramparts across the horizon. A carpet of soft green swings down the valley and lies along the plains beyond. In the pasture across the road a solitary hedgehog is pottering about some forgotten business before he sets out on the long waddle home. And in the air there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook or the off-key whistle...
...Crimson's outburst was not taken very seriously beyond Cambridge. At Princeton the Daily Princetonian politely opined that "the man who can show himself capable of carrying through the double task ought to be given every feasible encouragement and opportunity to undertake it." The New York World-Telegram, citing Herbert Hoover as a student who worked his way through college, exclaimed: "There would be more sense in barring those who earn none of their expenses than those who earn...
...Beyond the veils of psychological difficulties, of men less seeking to satisfy desire than in search of desire to satisfy, Author Wescott catches glimpses of economic difficulties now & then. With so much trouble dead ahead, one looks for less complaint, more cure. But the only cure offered is the one proposed by Tolstoy's peasant, who, when Tolstoy interrupted his plowing to ask him what he would do if he knew that the world was next day coming to an end, scratched his head and answered, "I would plow...
...more than four hours to plead for acquittal. He swung his long arms, glared, shouted, coaxed, sentimentalized, used all his courtroom tricks before sinking back into his chair an exhausted old man. His argument was that the defendants had been trapped by Fate in a chain of sorrowful circumstances beyond their control...
...hollow [of the beach] a great wave left stranded what appeared to be countless scintillating particles of silver . . . Some appeared to be standing on their tails, swaying vibrantly back & forth. Then on beyond we made out another great school. ... For perhaps eight or ten minutes this abundant run continued and then, as though a mysterious knell had summoned them back into the depths of the sea, the fish became fewer & fewer on the sand...