Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is Holger Drachmann with his outward insouciance, his interior delight in shocking a folk who secretly delight in being shocked-all cocked into roguishly droll, yet essentially sad, stanzas. The tongue i'-the cheek cannot quite outdo the tear...
...work may not succeed in the distinction of being called a Titian or a Rembrandt for long, but if advertised properly is sure to fool someone who knows nothing about art and buys for the name alone. Under modern methods of publicity, "finds" can be staged which will outdo Mark Twain's story of the success of Francois Millet. Even the sacro-sanct,--the critics,--are far from infallible. The world has not yet forgotten the suit over Gainsborough's "Sisters", which dragged on for weeks with critics of the first rank arguing on both sides before determining whether...
...sprints and the hurdles the University is expected to outdo Yale by 2 to 1. Gourdin has an excellent chance to win both the 100 and 220-yard dashes; and he will be backed by Chapin, Howard, Kennedy and Evans, a quartet which Yale will have difficulty to beat. In the 440-yard event Wharton and Chute should do well, although Coxe of Yale is favored to win. All season Krogness and Fitts have made better times than the best Eli men in the 120-yard high and the 220-yard low hurdles respectively...
Harvard's undefeated hockey seven will face off with the Dartmouth visitors on the Arena ice tonight at 8.15 o'clock. Although the Green team was completely humbled Thursday evening at the hands of the B. C. team, the boys from Hanover were able to outdo the fast M. A. C. team, and once they have found their pace on strange ice should put up a clever passing game...
...been obliterated. Great issues have become more identified with personal than with political partisanship, as the Treaty fight has shown. In both the old parties the more radical elements are threatening to wrest the sceptre from the grasp of the "Old Guard." With elements in both parties striving to outdo each other in radicalism, there will be an opportunity for constructive statesmanship untainted with reaction to acquire the political balance of power, without the disruption which attends the birth of a third party. This is the opportunity for patriotic service which the Chicago and San Francisco conventions should not allow...