Word: transcend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where music has been long established as one of the best professions, far fewer ladies study voice than here, because in Italy some show of vocal promise is regarded as a more or less necessary prelude to vocal study. Not so here. With our sublime optimism and idealism, we transcend mere physical limitations. The lofty aspiration is the thing...
...stakes in this struggle transcend in importance the national issue involved. The wealth of Upper Silesia means so much to Germany as to make the result of the plebiscite a definite factor in the reparations settlement. On that settlement hinges the economic future of Europe. And from the results of the previous plebiscites held in West and East Prussia, it appears that Silesia will follow suit in desiring a German annexation...