Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal causes of refunds resulting from overtaxation: 1) court rulings settling disputed intricacies of the revenue law, already complex beyond ordinary comprehension; 2) overpayments due to miscalculation by honest taxpayers. According to the Treasury, a vast majority of taxpayers figure and pay their taxes on the safe side, trusting the Treasury to return the change rather than inviting the Treasury's suspicion of them as tax-dodgers...
...theory advanced by Dr. Shapley at the meeting deals with the distances in the universe and fixes these relative distances larger than ever before, almost beyond the conception of the human mind. The Harvard director has previously overthrown the accepted Kapteyn theory and has now elaborated on his own theory which replaced...
...Limit Beyond Human Mind...
Both these papers, Shapley's and Lundmark's, are of vast importance in a reorganization of our idea of the extent of space, fixing a limit of which is as yet beyond human comprehension, according to Lundmark, who reports that the spiral nebulae which he has been examining are by no means the farthest objects from earth in the universe...