Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbarium now fills the brick building at 20 Divinity Avenue, beyond the new Biological Institute. The Herbarium's expansion has been effected partly be purchase and partly by expeditions to South and Central America, Kamerun, and China, under his leadership. He was an officer in the Harvard expedition to the Gaspe Peninsula, shortly after his transfer from Brown University, where he was assistant professor of Natural History...
Considerable doubt was expressed as to whether the Plan would be a success or a dismal failure when the gift was first made public. There is a limit, it was argued, beyond which segregation ceases to serve its purpose. The cultivation of the individual less not consist merely of instilling practical and intellectual knowledge into him it consists of much more than that. The counting out of his personality by contact with the wide variety of his contemporaries for example, is also an object of any really worthy secondary school. It has always been the boast of Exeter that...
Lunching jointly with the Dartmouth Club of San Francisco and listening to the broadcast of the Game from Soldiers Field, it was a distinct pleasure and thrill to hear Stanford music played by the Harvard Band and Stanford yells from the student body. It was beyond a doubt inspirational to our football team, battling far from home, and I know they too were appreciative of the support you rendered...
...have become appallingly destructive to crops, orchards, and the plantations' of young seedling trees set out by the Department of Forests & Waters for reforesting. And even after all their depredations on crops and orchards, large numbers of them, especially fawns, die every winter of starvation. . . . To increase game beyond the feeding possibilities of an area may not only result in . . . destruction of the game . . . but also . . . destruction for years to come of all possibilities of game restoration...
...probe into Western Union's letter files all over the country to see that good English was being used by the company. Schooled at Heidelberg, versed in German, French and Greek. Contact Man Lienau is still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb-We contacted Mr. Smith...