Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December 3 the Times wrote, FINNS REPORT SOVIET DRIVE HALTED, while the Worker replied with, SOVIET CEDES KARELIA, Six days later when Worker claimed, RED ARMY SWEEPS THROUGH SHATTERED MANNERHEIM LINE, the Times observed, FINNS REPORT FOR HURLED BACK ANEW ON KARELIAN FRONT. The Worker outdid itself, however, on December 5 when the first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign...
...Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were negligible, but he was a good politician and his wife was the sister of Joseph Bonaparte's wife. With these advantages, the Emperor made him a marshal...
Your staff of ace-high political writers outdid themselves in TIME, July...
...stewards outdid themselves to be pleasant, performing all sorts of little thoughtfulnesses which was taken much for granted...
...there was a bright side of the picture, too. Jim Lightbody, shifted into the 880 in a desperate bid for points, scored a stunning 1:54.1 victory in the half. And Bill Shallow outdid himself with a tremendous 170 foot, one inch hammer heave to capture first place and set a new meet record. Dick Sears took fifth in the same event...