Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Facsists and Royalists, can expect little opposition it also deserves little support. The Empire would resemble its magnificent counterpart only in name. The King would receive nothing from it save the difficulty of memorizing several new gestures demanded by an Imperial coronation. The nation itself would gather little benefit beyond the occasional enjoyment of a pomp which is of no circumstance...
...which Tammany leaders have amassed fortunes, while candidly it has set forth the relations of certain officers with bootlegging and organized crime. Further, the present financial condition of New York is attributed to "the waste, graft, and corruption with which the city is infested." But the report goes beyond this evidence, and suggests constructive criticism. Judge Seabury recommends that the school and police departments be immediately rid of politics and political influence. He suggests as the ONLY cure for the situation the City Manager form of government, which should be free of politics...
...port (New York) carrying a big man (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 Ib. avoirdupois). He was a man who a year ago established probably the most comprehensive cartel ever set up to rescue a world industry from destruction by overproduction. Now, almost a year later, the industry is beyond all question far worse off than before; from opposite sides of the globe rumble ominous rumors of the cartel's imminent dissolution. Last week the man-Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne-on the deck of the Berengaria announced: "I am quite certain that further limitations upon both export and production . . . will...
...activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect has been allowed to lie fallow for years. Beyond this there is the acceleration of every life. There is no relaxation, no tranquility, no time to take stock, and no stock to take. There is only the surpassing desire to make money with which to supply new creature comforts. And out of all this chaos comes a superb self...
...contention is ... that the size of the child at the time of delivery is determined by factors quite distinct from this consideration, and in most instances, entirely beyond our control. Without going into an elaborate discussion of the inheritance of parental traits, we may very well turn to the experience of animal breeders, for example, those who raise mules. The diet of the equine mother differs considerably in various parts of the country, but the custom of breeding jacks to mares rather than stallions to jennets is universal, the stallion's colt is always too large for the jennet...