Word: transcended
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...says, in part: "The map above you is not a fantasy. It is a factual design of one world man has built upon the earth. It is the particular world of international communication. No land masses appear here, nor oceans. For it is the very essence of communication to transcend these - to render continents into carriers, seas into bridges . . . Here exposed is the nerve system of our century . . . Here are the navigators' great circle routes, the channels and the networks through which our thought flows, our news passes, our opinion gathers, and over which the end products...
...streptomycin, first and still the best of the "miracle drugs" which fight TB. But in The White Plague (Little. Brown; $4), Rene and Jean Dubos urge mankind to stop thinking of the disease in terms of drugs and individual patients: "Tuberculosis is a social disease and presents problems that transcend the conventional medical approach . . . The impact of social and economic factors [must] be considered as much as the mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other hand, the disease modifies in a peculiar manner the emotional and intellectual climate of the societies that...
...such thing as a color bar . . . British boys, Rhodesians, sturdy Gurkhas, Africans and Fijiians . . . are all risking their lives side by side with Malays, Chinese and Indians . . . These men see their real enemy-Communism. They also see their real friends, and know that the things they are fighting for transcend any differences there might be of skin or color or custom." The club committee resigned in a body, and their successors endorsed a new policy of interracial friendship...
...recording, Tallulah mentioned, "Louie and his golden horn transcend nationality and race...
Although the beaches of both camps were well sprinkled with pelicans, the huge show had a hard core of excellence. Perhaps a score of the 559 pictures transcend both expressionist strutting and abstractionist wing-flapping, as well as prosaic egg-laying. For two such pictures-standouts among the six watercolor award winners-see following page...