Word: transcend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, a departmental library's specialization and the personal services it provides transcend consideration of location and finance, especially since the departments are willing to continue paying for them out of their own budgets. Although there are probably a few of those eighty libraries which the University can centralize without much inconvenience to students the Social Relations and Philosophy collection should remain just where they...
...career as schoolmaster to the world, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization early discovered that ideas could transcend almost anything but foreign exchange. In those days, even with UNESCO's help, a student in a soft-currency nation who wanted to sample hard-currency wisdom in printed form had to negotiate with a staggering array of government agencies, import license bureaus, customs men and international bankers. Four years ago UNESCO tried printing exchangeable coupons, but found itself still hamstrung by the differing currencies of its member nations...
...against the Reds. "Men who have come thousands of miles to fight Communism in Malaya," said he, "British boys, Rhodesians, Gurkhas, Africans, Fijians, are all risking life side by side with Malay, Chinese and Indian lads. These men . . . know that the things which they are fighting for transcend the differences there may be of skin, color or custom...
...Constant Wife is in many ways an excellent comedy. For considerable stretches of time it manages to transcend the limitations of its type--the drawing room comedy. But in the last analysis, I'm afraid, despite a good try, it remains a pretty standard piece; Some rest Maugham has not escaped mediocrity...
...course there is no question of the right of American citizens to organize in pursuit of their common convictions. I realize that Senator Lodge and his associates are exercising this right in an attempt to place before me next July a duty that would transcend my present responsibility. In the absence, however, of a clear-cut call to political duty, I shall continue to devote my full attention . . . to the task to which I am assigned...