Word: realms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cozy room with a fireplace, bright red & green hunting prints and a volume of Burke's Landed Gentry. Like many a Big Business headquarters, it looks like the hideout of a country squire. This is the home of The Aviation Corp., once as fabulous a flyer in the realm of high finance as the Great Roc itself...
...Report. Luckily for the ultra-physicists, the U.S. Army, hell-bent for high-altitude guided missiles, was cooperating. Last week the Army told good news. A German V-2 rocket, roaring 100 miles above New Mexico, had carried elaborate instruments to the realm of the cosmic rays. Twenty miles up, the effect of the rays was 300 times as strong as on the earth; 20 miles higher it fell off again...
Professor Roscoe Pound is one of the most eminent jurists of the generation. But Professor Pound, by his own admission, discusses matters outside the realm of the Law with "individual imbecility." Having recently completed a legal code for the Chinese Central Government, Professor Pound returned to this country and dropped minor words of wisdom that cannot be considered imbecilic, but can certainly be tossed in with the "inside dope" brought back by scores of junketing Congressmen, visiting firemen, and just plain tourists...
South of Massachusetts Avenue lies the realm of upperclasmen, land of Houses, clubs, and tailoring establishments. On Holyoke Street, south of the Hygiene Building, is the Indoor Athletic Building. At the foot of Boylston Street, near the Cambridge end of the Lars Anderson Bridge, is the Weld Boat Club...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...