Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cold figures show how superior was the Blue to the Crimson in every department of the game except that which calls for men to outdo themselves when faced by apparent defeat."--Burton Whitman, Boston Herald...
...Look at the team which he took to the Indoor Intercollegiates last year. Of 29 men who made the trip, only nine had won their letters in preparatory school. All the rest Coach Farrell had taken as novices and by sheer force of personality had inspired those men to outdo themselves in practice until they had become proficient. There was not a man on the team who would not have concurred with me in this estimate. To the football team he is carrying that same inspiration...
...realize what a tremendous help the colleges can be to young hopeful. All they need is a little adaptation; and when thousands of young men, answering the call of material success, become inmates and potential alumni of the colleges, many faculties become every so obliging. Already they try to outdo each other by adding courses, in swine husbandry, scientific laundering, and analytical plumbing...
Robert Benchley characterized "Grounds For Divorce," opening this week at the Plymouth Theatre, as "Ina Claire at her best." That cells part of the story, probably the best part, but still only a part. The play itself is excellent, the staging is good, and all the characters outdo themselves in making a background for the brilliant work of Miss Claire...
Admitting that internal and economic questions are as nearly insolvable as under any ministry, it seems likely that the Baldwin cabinet will seek to outdo its defeated rivals in foreign policy. The decisive putting down of the imperial foot in Egypt, the postponement of the protocol conference at England's behest, the presence of Austen Chamberlain at the opening in Rome of the League Council point to a reliance upon England's own strength in diplomacy rather than to the dubious protection of treaties and agreements. The Tories will, of course, try to reduce taxes, without restricting the beneficent activities...