Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just ordered some merchandise to be sent to his home. "There will be a slight mailing charge outside of New England," the salesgirl announced. "Oh, I live outside of New England all right," replied the proud son of the Empire State. But he had scarcely progressed beyond the 'Park Avenue' part of his address before he was interrupted by derisive female chuckles. "To the Coop," the salesgirl informed him, "New York is in New England...
...obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little in common that it was hard to find anyone in or out of Congress last week who supported both...
...false economic thinking persistently pursued by both Government and the business community. . . . I believe we are now in a major depression which involves the possibility of a break-down of our economic and political organization. The chances are overwhelming that inflation will be resumed. ... I think it is beyond question that the American public will not submit to the rigorous deflation which real recovery would require in this country. They could not take it the last time...
Starting Before the Shower, six jittery horses dancing and rearing under jouncing jockeys in the gloom of a stormy afternoon, while a wall of white raincloud sweeps up beyond the white curve of the track fence...
...being heard. For there is a distinction between sound intellectual operation, which takes discipline, and words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For the latter to get the cold shoulder at Harvard does not mean the College is old before its time, but rather that it is mature beyond its years. That is not a bad claim to distinction...