Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise a full year before they are to begin their freshman year; so that with the assurance of being admitted, they may spend their last year at school more profitably than heretofore. Relieved of the necessity of cramming for college board examinations, they can survey the fields that lie beyond their schoolboy courses, and can learn to think farther ahead towards their mental fulfillment than tomorrow's recitation. Further, they can prepare themselves in language requirements so as to avoid compulsory language courses in their freshman year...
...idea that formal education in one form or another may well be continued at intervals beyond the college age is one which has received increasing attention of late. The Business School, for instance, conducts a month's summer session for executives, which attracts active leaders from all parts of the country; during the last vacation it welcomed a three-day alumni gathering, which listened in on the summer session lectures. The increase in summer schools and university extension courses testifies to a growing belief in this same idea...
...climbed up and worsted the Giant. Last week James Ramsay MacDonald, who planted his National Government in the doubtful soil of a General Election (TIME, Nov. 2, et ante), was simply astounded. "We appealed for a demonstration of national unity," he said. "The response has been far beyond the dreams of the most enthusiastic...
...human eye but suspected by a few human brains, some great unknown heavenly body was making its attraction felt. One of the human brains belonged to the late Percival Lowell, another to William Henry Pickering, both Harvard astronomers. In January 1930, true to Lowell calculations, a new planet beyond outermost Neptune and 3,680,000,000 mi. from the sun picked its way across a photographic plate in the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. It was subsequently called Pluto?the first two letters of the name being the initials of Percival Lowell...
Twenty-two years ago Professor Pickering first became aware of an immense heavenly body beyond the known superior planets. He knew that the object of his search was huge, thought he would call the planet Pluto when he was sure of its existence. When Lowell's Planet X came along and got that name, the putative Pickering planet was then called Planet...