Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Esmond Ovey made no protest, went on quietly forking some excellent caviar. Beyond a doubt all the knives, forks and spoons on the table had been seized during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy-i.e. stolen. Never did the grand old motto of the British Royal Arms turn up more appropriately, "Shamed be he who thinks evil...
...venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State is contemptuous of these. For nearly two decades Norris has kept Nebraska beyond the pale of Federal favor, but his people consider him worth the price. George Norris is the burr Nebraska delights in putting under the Eastern saddle. He is the reprisal for all the jokes of vaudevillists, the caricatures of cartoonists and the jibes of humorists that have come...
Because the crash that killed Knute Rockne and seven others in Kansas last month (TIME, April 13) has yet to be fully explained (beyond the simple fact that a wing of the Fokker plane pulled off) the Department of Commerce last week took drastic action. It suspended all Fokker trimotors of the 1929 type from passenger service until experts of the Department and the Fokker company make a thoroughgoing inspection of each craft. Said Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young: "No reflection of any kind upon Fokker aircraft or its basic design or original construction. The only point involved...
...military counterpart, "Journey's End." Nor is the reason for its obvious discrepancies recondite. To use a too hackneyed phrase, the plot lacks human interest. Save for the casual friendship of the English and German Lieutenants upon which the action attempts to be based, there is little beyond its very real thrills and occasional humor to lend it coherence...
With the editor's statement that Coleridge was "the greatest of English critics" it is difficult to agree. That he was potentially so is more likely. For unless criticism is better formulated than his, its significance can scarcely be estimated beyond, in this case, "its historical influence upon Shakespeare's fame...