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Word: exceed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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Usage:

...double stack, the outer stack being polished brass, and fits over a nipple on the boiler, the stack being provided with handles on both sides so that it can be taken off quickly to pass under bridges. Her speed is guaranteed at 14 knots, but she is expected to exceed this on her trial trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Launch "Veritas" | 4/3/1900 | See Source »

...private property to Green St., which runs parallel to Massachusetts Ave., and then to Brattle square by way of Mount Auburn St. According to present plans there will only be two stations in Cambridge and in this case the running time between Brattle Square and Scollay Square will not exceed ten minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elevated Line to Cambridge. | 3/2/1900 | See Source »

...instead of leaving all to varying traditions and theories. It has been proved by examination of over 40,000 school children that the average pupil can not go beyond a certain degree of proficiency in any study. So much time is wasted under the present system in attempting to exceed this possibility that the elementary schools now accomplish hardly half of what they might under a more practical system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elementary Education. | 2/16/1900 | See Source »

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