Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resort hotel at French Lick Springs, Ind., famed for Pluto Water, Owner Tom Taggart invited 1,000 rich and prominent Indianans to spend a free weekend. Even the Pluto Water was free. Only expense for each guest: he must buy at least $1,000 in war bonds. The guests outdid themselves. Slapstick Cinecomedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello conducted an auction. Boldest bid: $103,000 in bonds for a cocker-spaniel pup donated by Cinemactress Irene Dunne. Total sales that weekend in French Lick...
...standard German equipment. But Rommel massed them in unprecedented numbers, towed some in conventional fashion, mounted others in self-propelled units. In last year's Libyan campaign, the British confounded Rommel with their lighter, but then effective, 25-pounders. He took the lesson to heart, this year outdid the British in their own anti-tank tactics...
...froth-mouthed isolationist, before Dec. 7 Hearst published yapping anti-British editorials which sometimes outdid the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Afterward, for a time, the anti-British editorials disappeared. But not for long. Presently Hearst's 4,110,270 daily readers were informed that Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet...
...signing this contract, Ford not only reversed its labor policy but outdid both General Motors and Chrysler, neither of which has granted union shops. Said Edsel Ford: "No half measures will be effective. ... So we have decided to go the whole way." One thing was certain: the most important member of the "we" was 77-year-old Henry Ford. There were many conflicting theories about what had moved...
Hampered by the early date at which most of its opponents were able to take to the diamond, Stahl's ball club outdid itself by holding Georgetown one of the best teams in the East, to a 7-4 count...