Word: overleap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are tragedies. The machine will tilt and all further free Will must be forfeited, when a player does not play the game properly, when he attempts to overleap the limitations set upon him, strikes too hard and upsets the balance of things...
...anarchy." Vividly, and with heavy sarcasm, he summed it up: "Here are these people, in many cases of the same race, charming people, lightly clad, crowded together . . . and yet there is no intermarriage. . . . Religion has raised a bar which not even the strongest impulses of nature can overleap. It is an astounding thing. Yet the Government expects in 14 months that there will be an agreement on these subjects between these races...
Prospects were likely to be uglier still for later months, as defense demands overleap aluminum production, were not likely to improve much until 1942-43, when Alcoa, Reynolds Metals Co. and Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. get additional new plants into operation...