Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Increased industrial efficiency has given the United States "magnificent production, miserable distribution, and appalling unemployment," he said, " but the economists have not advanced beyond Adam Smith...
...Vogue especially during these days of cruel, vicious and unreasoning persecution of Jews." While the indignant telegrams began to pile up on his desk, Conde Nast held back the 130,000 copies that had not yet been distributed, scored out the offending legends. But 150,-ooo distributed copies were beyond recall. And of course Mr. Nast demanded Mr. Beaton's resignation as photographer and artist for Vogue, well knowing that after ten years Vogue was losing its highest-priced and most sprightly talent. Third Nast move was to rip out 14 expensive pages of Mr. Beaton...
...BEYOND HORIZONS - Lincoln Ellsworth -Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Unaffected autobiography of the 57-year-old Polar explorer, mainly concerned with his Arctic and Antarctic experiences of the last two decades, of which the greatest hardship was his 1926 Arctic flight with Amundsen, matched only by the hardships of dealing with his rich father...
These preliminary experiments have indicated that out of the fifty-five metallic elements, only six have melting points beyond the reach of the Harvard apparatus in its present state. These are carbon, melting at 6300 degrees Fahrenheit; tungsten, at 6066 degrees; rhenium, at 5400 degrees; tantalum, at 5130 degrees; osium, at 4860 degrees and molybdenum at 4716 degrees...
This week the third Annual MacDowell Radio Festival boomed far beyond U. S. borders. Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony, under slope-shouldered Georges Enesco, broadcast MacDowell's symphonic poem Lancelot and Elaine over the Columbia network. Other commemorative broadcasts were heard over Columbia, NBC, Don Lee, and Canadian broadcasting systems, as well as 56 independent stations. Additional MacDowell broadcasts were heard from one station each in Ireland, Sweden, England, Australia, Poland. Norway, and from three stations in Germany, where MacDowell spent his most fruitful student years...