Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They live in row houses one block long, keep their windows closed and shades down to prevent the entry of dust . . . and sunshine. Their main items of diet: potatoes, cabbage and squash let them grow beyond the limits of plumpness. They mistrust science and its balanced meal and vitamin instruction, are susceptible to goitre...
...bruises. Engineer Southerland. seeing he could not stop in time, signaled frantically to Engineer McClintock in the second locomotive, then pulled his throttle wide open, tore loose from his train and hurtled onto the culvert. The engine carried across the bridge even as it crumpled, safely reached solid tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois' worst railroad wreck...
Last week it was disclosed that Dr. Humason has put to work the world's fastest lens, for further survey of the abysses beyond the Milky Way. Designed by Dr. Wilbur Bramley Rayton, technical chief of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., the lens has a speed of f:0.59, six and one-half times faster than commonly used in minicameras (f:1.5). The necessary time for spectographing remote nebulae has been cut in half, in one instance from 120 hours to 60 hours. "It is now possible," said Dr. Humason, "to observe faint objects which have heretofore seemed hopeless...
...life of a people suffering from war. The story keeps returning to the village where the ditches are being dug, and ends with the waters of the Tagus River flowing into the fields, timidly, as though the normal productive ways of man were almost, but not quite, beyond hope...
Applemen love Johnny, although they deplore his cultural methods, for presumably he made the U. S. apple-conscious beyond all other nations. This year some 65,000,000 bbl. of apples will be produced in the U. S.-about four-fifths of world production and biggest U. S. yield in six years. This is a 60% increase over last year's crop. Apples come in three types (dessert, culinary, cider) and some 7,500 U. S. varieties are grown on a large-scale in all but nine States.† New York once (1900-08) produced 50% of the crop...