Word: transcends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survival or a social revolution? Author de Sales answers: Both. He calls World War II "this multidimensional crisis," and finds the key to its irrational pattern in "the vertical conflicts in which nations fight one another, and the horizontal conflicts which are ideological, political, social and economic." These latter "transcend boundaries," for no nation, including the Axis powers, is free of them. "They overlap purely national allegiances, and disrupt the national fronts." Author de Sales warns his readers that this picture "is anything but simple. . . . The vertical conflicts are frequently in apparent or real opposition to the horizontal ones...
...Whether or not these gains transcend the losses," Brooks added at a Littauer Center symposium, "there will be another very great gain in a more universal appreciation of the value of science in national welfare that should mean more liberal support for scientific work...
...grounds about which Collingwood wrote are now the home of another Mediterranean commander-Cunningham. To it and the sailor's greatest luxury, gardening, he hopes to retire. But meanwhile he has a heavy job to do. He knows that like all British servants of salt water, he must transcend his personal wants. He has a wife and family, but as Nelson used to say: "East of Gibraltar, every man is a bachelor." On the Mediterranean, every British manjack is a piece of naval equipment...
...play Hamlet consists entirely of false propositions, which transcend experience, but which are certainly significant, since they can arouse emotions...
...lifelong friend of British Evolutionist Thomas Huxley. He exposed the Cardiff Giant ("a gypsum man, ten and a half feet long, nude, virile and unabashed") as a fake. His biography by Clara LeVene and Professor Schuchert, one of the few co-workers whose respect and affection managed to transcend the great paleontologist's "autocratic tendency," reconstructs the life of Othniel Charles Marsh with as much care and completeness as Marsh reconstructed his fossils...