Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realizing that new and immensely powerful forces can be brought to influence public opinion in favor of special interests, and that many individuals are finding their reputations entirely dominated by forces completely beyond their control, the committee believes that the "tremendously significant social phenomena" should be made available for study by the historian and student. While ballyhoo artists and press agents have existed for many decades, a new technician, the "public relations counsel," has been created, and occupies now much the same status as a doctor or a lawyer...
That letter others have blindly eulogized as the only effective method of enforcing the Pact of Paris, as giving a new face to the shattered Nine Power treaties, and thus as the only feasible method of deterring Japan from further violence. But President Lowell has attempted to look beyond immediate effects and to discover, if possible, its ultimate significance. With a well buttressed premise that the Kellogg-Briand Pact is not, strictly speaking, a treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations...
...Aristide Briand, meant the end. Like Fighter Clemenceau, Pacifier Briand had a minimum of belief in God and a future life, if he could be said to have any. Of the French Wartime "Big Three" only Marshal Ferdinand Foch went devout and confident to a Catholic's eternal life beyond the grave...
Jauntily, after the miscarriage of his plans, Don Alfonso XIII left Paris for a tour of the Holy Land. "This is comic beyond belief!" he chuckled in Jerusalem when correspondents asked if he had signed the manifesto. "This is what I should call taking my name in vain...
...work in Cambridge is carried on in a large X-ray laboratory and special vault which extends beyond the wall of the main building. These rooms have been constructed in the basement of the new Research Laboratory, and located so that the rest of the laboratory may be protected from the distrubing influence of the high voltage X-ray tubes...