Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, the frontiers of the film at Harvard have been advanced beyond the field of the physical sciences. In the new and forward-looking department of Sociology, Professor Zimmerman is carrying on a significant experiment. He is assembling reels of film to make clear the little-known life of other civilizations, such as the Eastern, and to illustrate the economic factors involved. He hopes to clarify the exaggerated impressions that are so current with regard to the severity of rural life; and show how these remote patterns of living are affected by disturbances in capitalistic civilizations. He wants...
...There is a mysterious liaison which unites the American Army to that of Jugoslavia. This liaison is not a treaty, nor an alliance, nor a declaration, but consists in eternal sentiments of spiritual friendship which extend beyond the bonds of distance. . . . Our desires, our sentiments, our characters are fundamentally the same. In the great moral principles of right to liberty and peace, the armies of Jugoslavia and America will march parallely in full accord, not disturbing one another since in all fundamental things Jugoslavia and America are in full accord...
...record of Playwright O'Neill easily establishes him as the nation's greatest. The tom-tom which thudded through The Emperor Jones (1920) sounded a new pulse on the U. S. stage. With Beyond the Horizon (1919), Anna Christie (1921) and Strange Interlude (1929) he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize. His published works number 28. If you would like a copy of Thirst & Other One-Act Plays, his first printed volume, it will cost...
...great difficulty with museums has always been their size. They have on exhibition such an artistic conglomeration that one is wearied beyond possible appreciation and carries away no clear impression. By this plan one masterpiece will be accentuated so that every person will notice it and be able to remember...
...estimated that telescopic power will gain, on Oak Ridge, a whole magnitude beyond that obtainable at the present site in Cambridge. This difference in brightness corresponds to a doubling of the number of stars within the reach of the various photographic telescopes...