Search Details

Word: one-upped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

After finishing behind Dartmouth two weeks ago at the Brown Spring Invitational, the Crimson hoped to one-up the Big Green by placing higher in its most prestigious tournament of the year. In a women’s golf league dominated by Yale, Princeton and Brown, Harvard and Dartmouth have...

Author: By Joshua M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Golf Bests Dartmouth, Wins Fourth at Ivy Championship | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

I personally believe that all of the above complaints about Harvard are completely false and that the atmosphere created by these all-too-common gripes seems to do more to make our time here negative than the actual conditions we are complaining about. The reason this overwhelming negative attitude about...

Author: By Joseph K. Green, | Title: Strength Through Discourse | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

Nothing is more adored by cubicle-dwelling Gen-Xers than geek kitsch. And nothing is geekier or kitschier than Japanese video games of the 1980s, back when efficient translation was not considered essential. The dialogue of Zero Wing contains such gems as "Somebody set us up the bomb," "Take off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Your Base Are Belong To Us | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Rather than remaining in the audience with the other final club members and dates, Novak, who was attending the show "Fangs for the Memories" with other members of the Harvard Lampoon, the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, decided to one...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poonster Crashes Pudding Show | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

If there is any fear of competition, it’s on the part of the older sibling. Art Koski-Karell laments that Dan is surpassing him as a rower and as a student. Another junior, whose brother will be a freshman next year, jokes that he might one-up...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Harvard Mafia: Siblings Kill to Join the Family in Cambrdige | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next