Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the quay, past crowds which cried "Hip! Hip! Hooray!" the party ascended a steep hill to take luncheon near the old Citadel of Quebec, at the magnificent hotel, Chateau Frontenac. There Edward of Wales and Stanley Baldwin rivaled and outdid one another in the suavity and tact of their luncheon speeches...
Thereafter, last week the correspondents hounded both admirals with questions about ships and eggshells, and drew from them practically infinite variations on this safe, discussible, amusing topic. Admiral Jones outdid his rival by declaring explosively, "Why the plates on some destroyers are so thin you could almost poke a finger through...
Sabin Carr of Yale outdid the effort of Harrington of the B. A. A. in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 18 feet...
...Haven, Conn., May 31--Sabin W. Carr was elected captain of the Yale track team for next year at a meeting of the lettermen today. The new Eli leader has been a consistently excellent performer in his specialty, the pole vault, and last Saturday outdid his previous best efforts to set a new world's record of 14 feet for the vault. Carr will be a Senior next year...
...Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker 179. That was the places my shop. Thanks you entered insides purchase me this time." Cosmopolites had seen the same sort of thing done by fawning Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife...