Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Talleyrand and Fenelon, two men strikingly similar in temperament, worlds apart in their actual careers, his impartial sympathy for both leaves the reader free to enter sympathetically into their characters. It is high praise for this kind of biography to say that it makes the reader eager to go beyond the information given, and study the characters at first hand...
...Yale, the other Eastern colleges under investigation, will not be found similarly wanting. It is a deplorable reflection on education in the East that, boasting advance in material ways, it has failed to keep pace with the younger, fresher, and more aggressive ideas and ideals that are coming from beyond the Alleghenies. Can it be allowed to be said with truth that Harvard cherishes reaction...
...slate, and kept it clean. The collection from Stadium crowds for the unemployed was a result of outside pressure on the part of University Hall conspiring with a Boston Transcript writer; initiative for a perfunctory resolution at the time of subway rioting also came from the Dean's office. Beyond this the existing organization has done nothing. The preceding council compiled a report on the tutorial system which has already produced results. If the present body has instigated any investigations, neither the subjects nor the personnel of the committees has been announced...
When George Eastman took his life (TIME. March 21), little was known of his affairs. During his lifetime he gave away some $75,000,000; most people assumed he had little left beyond a nominal share in his kodak company. The filing of his will last week disclosed an estate of some $20,000,000. Of this $200,000 goes to Mrs. Ellen Andrus Dryden of Evanston, Ill., his niece and nearest relative. Other bequests go to her husband and children, to employes and associates of Mr. Eastman, to Rochester charities. The residual estate is such as to raise...
While Professor Bonbright conceded that a holding company is essential to consolidate small, competing plants, he averred it has been carried "to a point far beyond that of maximum economy. . . . Normal growth has given away to giantism with a result that a system such as Electric Bond & Share or the Insull System must be regarded as an economic disease." He claimed that geographical "diversification," a prime selling-point for holding company securities, is not rational. He roundly criticized holding companies for borrowing (as many have done) from the companies they control. Heartily in accord with these sentiments was Harvard...