Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another problem is that some prizes have long since become dated. The award of approximately $70 for the "best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin" attracted only two entrants last year. When the award was instituted over 20 years ago, that English author and critic was much more highly regarded than he is today...
...Engle, Brown coach, yesterday said that his 242 pound tackle Don Colo played the best game Saturday that any Brown man has played in his eight years on the coaching staff...
Back before the First World War there had been another such organization, and it had actually put out posters showing one of its opposition, "one of the best men who ever walked the streets of East Cambridge," behind bars...
...incidentals are the best of all. Faced with scores of temptations to slip into patches or melodrama, the script escapes nimbly every time. Bits like the execution of a priest and the shooting game of the drunken German commandant acquire a power above their importance to the story...
...snagged in a maze of minor details. It has set up house committees to uncover gripes. But everyone is used to hearing gripes about food, and the Administration feels that the current protests are nothing more than the usual. The Administration poses the questions, "Are we giving you the best possible food for your money and is this best good enough?" It answers yes to both and says that they have not yet been disproved...