Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laboriously climbing back up his rope the equivalent of 30 floors, he started horizontal explorations which led miles beyond any known territory. One vast underground chamber, lavishly studded with stalactites, pools of water, a fountain, Nicholson and his comrades named "Hell's Half Acre." To the north of this room was a shaftway, with levels above and below. A strong air current suggested another entrance to the cave...
Into the tunnel leading beyond "Hell's Half Acre" stumbled the party. The tunnel led them into another towering amphitheatre, so lofty that flashlight beams failed to find the ceiling. The white marble stage was set for a vast Wagnerian twilight of the gods, in glittering onyx, with orange-tinted, translucent stone curtains and footlights of stalagmites...
...Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will speak on the subject "Beyond Humanistic Religion" at 10.45 o'clock tomorrow at the Community Church, service in Symphony Hall, Boston...
...hitherto unknown planet, the ninth of our solar system, has been located beyond Neptune by astronomers at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Harvard College Observatory. It was in search of this planet that Percival Lowell '76, an older brother of President Lowell, spent the last years of his life. As an interesting side-light, it was learned yesterday that the date of the discovery would have been his seventy-fifth birthday...
...even without the immediate facts which can be gathered in universities throughout the country, the projection of undergraduate thought beyond the sphere of the collegiate, is justified. In opposition to the policy that editorials should leave to the rest of the thinking world, matters of national concern, is the position that students who will be the nucleus of the nation's affairs ten years from now, should carry their interests into fields beyond the academic hot-house. The production of a race of scholars is the best that the former policy can hope to attain; the spreading of a more...