Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tsar Alexander III in 1893, lolanthe had its U. S. premiere only last week. It was revived for the New York Musicians Emergency Fund in the outdoor theatre of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, at Scarborough. Soprano Lola Monti-Gorsey as lolanthe, Bass-Baritone Vasily Romakoff as the king, easily outdid a strident chorus of autumn katydids, sang their roles with grace and finesse. Guest of honor was sixtyish. grey-haired Margaret Eichenwald, who was coached for the role of lolanthe at its premiere by Tchaikovsky, now teaches voice at the Vocal Studio in Manhattan. The other was the conductor, Eugene...
...bushel for wheat-the first time they have been offered $1 in three years. Threshing machine men upped their rental charges 25%. In the Chicago pit, wheat for May delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward A. Crawford (TIME, June 19) was resumed. Also there was talk of a rye shortage due to 1) expected use of more rye flour...
Some 300 young men representing universities from Ohio to Minnesota outdid themselves in a high wind last week, in the Western Conference track & field championships at Evanston. Two, going with the wind, outdid the world but their records were likely to be officially thrown out. Eight were earmarked for U. S. Olympic notice...
...scores. ... In general science 39% of the freshmen did better than the median senior; in foreign literature about 24%; in fine arts 36%; in general history 38%. In the test as a whole 30% of the seniors were below the freshman median, while about the same proportion of freshmen outdid the median senior. The heretofore pardonable and undisproved conviction of the fourth-year man that any senior must of necessity be wiser than any freshman should apparently undergo revision. Either the knowledge has simply not been retained or it has never been acquired...
...delineation of a program for the State, it was just the sort of paper to be expected from a conventional presidential candidate?care- fully balanced, shrewdly generalized, replete with phrases like bright empty bottles into which any man could pour his own meaning. Newsmen, overanxious to make a "story," outdid themselves reading national significance into his words. Excerpts...