Word: transcender
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...Supreme Court ruled that the Oklahoma statute violated the "due process" clause because it attempted arbitrarily to deprive Iceman Liebeman of his constitutional "liberty" of carrying on what is commonly considered a private business. The majority opinion held that the State's right to economic experimentation did not transcend the U. S. Constitution...
...foreign films are still coming to Boston. Some are intended for the French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...
...discovered in the contact with his fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really extraordinary qualities. He conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather to his lack of fortitude in self-justification. Dostoevsky was not irreligious. At bottom he had a primitive kind of Christianity, which thought man became great through suffering. Furthermore, since...
...paralyzed, is to find a voice in the newly appointed Committee of Ten, which has been selected with a strong attempt to secure a representative group. While this committee will deal with certain of the routine matters of funds and smokers, there is good hope that it will transcend these activities and become a really effective intermediary between the class and the officers of the university...
...book represents an attempt to view Soviet Russia from the standpoint of the newer school of internationalists who believe that a nation's rulers, and consequently her actions, are a product of fundamental forces which transcend the rise and fall of governments. In this the volume succeeds admirably...