Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deny that the greatest problem facing this country today is recovery from the economic depression. Whatever the causes of the depression, and they are probably many reaching far beyond the borders of the United States, the principal question which concerns the people of the United States is how to care for the present and provide for the future. They problem is essentially one of reconstruction and relief...
Those who followed him beyond the pale of History 1 are probably more conscious of the originality which informed his work and led to revision of the contemporary estimate of Lord Castlereagh. The personal experience of the making of history which he acquired at the Conference of Paris is equally notable part of his equipment. It lends to his opinions a realism and authority rare enough in the field of history to make his transfer to London next September a distinct loss for Harvard...
...Kirstein writes well. He knows how to handle a dramatic situation simply. His prose can b e powerful and direct, and his characters, real. But somehow he seldom realizes his possibilities; they are usually just beyond his grasp. In the future with greater maturity he may perhaps...
...disreputable of all the Freshman Halls. James and Persis Smith Halls, in the old days, were the freshman playgrounds and now, when no more Jubilants will trample the fugitive grass, they wear an air of faded youth. Outside the western gate runs the ceaseless traffic of Boylston Street and beyond it the dreary maze of the trolley car terminal. Kirkland, without the freshness of a new House, without the relief of the Charles to turn to, and with the hurly-burly of Cambridge at its back-door must establish its reputation in other ways...
Also during the week, Henry ("Red") Johnson, a friend of Nurse Gow's who had difficulty explaining his movements on the kidnapping night, passed beyond suspicion. He was, however, held for the immigration authorities when it was found that his real name was Henrik Finn Johnsen and that he had illegally entered the U. S. by jumping ship in Brooklyn several years...