Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents were divorced. When his mother remarried unhappily, Darryl began spending his summers back in Nebraska with her father, Henry Torpin, a well-to-do grain processor and landowner who could spin eyewitness tall tales about an Indian massacre. In letters to his grandfather, the scrawny boy soon outdid the old man's stories with lurid imaginings of what might be seen from his train window...
...high before the last increase." Nor did Taft ignore the question of "whether the U.S. Steel Corp. is so predominant that it has power to fix prices and at least modify the usual effects of competition." If that were found to be the case, Taft suggested a solution that outdid even O'Mahoney's proposals. "We should consider," he said, "whether we should place a limit on the proportion of any industry which can be controlled by one company...