Word: transcended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current arms program and the attempt to make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues...
...Masaryk is a pretty illustration of man s inability to transcend his environment, except when it becomes absolutely unbearable. . . . Florid, faultless plaid suit, suede shoes, a proper inch of cuff showing, a hearty voice spouting inconsequential generalities for the press. He was a study in hopeless indifference. How unlike the father...
...deprecate all thinking in terms of power politics," Dean Matthews continued. "It is bound to lead one straight to war. My hope is that we may transcend power politics and capitalize on the overwhelming desire of the common people for peace. Every year gives an additional chance for that will to peace to express itself, and that is what Chamberlain is thinking...
...action Harvard appears to have shown good judgement in the handling of the funds; but without the continued interest here as well as in other colleges, the Nieman ideal can never hope to transcend the first stages of embryonic form...
...present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation in Texas. Before leaving Uvalde he succinctly announced: "Selection of a floor leader is none of my business." As the mourners well knew, however, the interests and duties of an elder U. S. statesman often transcend the strict boundaries of his business...