Word: transcender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jokes live a long time at Harvard. Sometimes these jokes, especially cartoons in the Harvard Lampoon, which occasionally transcend decency, return from death to plague their perpetrators. A "Lampy'' cartoon of two dirty hogs "rooting for Princeton" did much to cause the not-yet-healed breach between Harvard and Princeton. Another cartoon last week brought the Lampoon's editors a threat of criminal action by the district attorney of Middlesex County...
...President of the United States: "I do not minimize the scientific gains of such expeditions, but the human values are so immediate and so universal in their effects that it may well be that they transcend the scientific service...
Recent developments indicate, however, that Indian enthusiasm for rebellion when once aroused, shows an alarming tendency to transcend the pacific limitations imposed by Ghandi's program. The situation in India today can well be viewed with alarm by British officials. It has become necessary to remove all women and children from the vicinity of Peshawar where violence is at fever heat. At Chittagong an attempt to cut off all communications resulted in an indiscriminate massacre of Europeans and natives. At Simla some fifty casualties have been reported...