Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departure from its traditional neutrality policy, the United States has increased its responsibilities beyond the requirements of international law, without eliminating the possibility of involvement in economic complications or of affording substantial assistance in the maintenance of peace. . . . It may be doubted whether the extremer forms of isolation are practicable under modern conditions...
...danger of breaking up (TIME, Feb. 14). For nine months, as they were carried by sea currents southward from the Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow. To Leningrad and beyond, the flight was uneventful. In the mountainous Kandalaksha region near the White Sea, a heavy snowstorm enveloped the airship. Radio communication stopped. Searching parties found the wreckage after a 24-hour hunt. Thirteen of the crew, including the commander, were dead. Three of six survivors were injured...
...crater was formed even when the projectiles entered at a considerable angle. Close study of the Meteor Crater strata made it seem that the meteorite had come in at a low angle, perhaps no more than 30°, from the northeast, and that it should therefore lie beneath or beyond the southwest...
...hill a couple of miles beyond the suburbs of Chillicothe, Ohio (pop. 18,340) is a 63-acre farm with a hundred-year-old stone house, Oak Hill. Its inhabitants are 34-year-old Charles Allen Smart and his wife. They call themselves plain farmers...
MARK TWAIN-Edgar Lee Masters-Scribner ($2.75). Polemical biography that goes beyond Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain in picturing the humorist as a clown whose genius was warped by his refusal to challenge the ruling powers; written in an exasperated style that suggests Poet Masters would not have enjoyed Mark Twain even if he had written in another fashion...