Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen of the Class of 1912. The proud 1912 alumni plan the "greatest and most elaborate" 25th reunion yet staged in Cambridge, chafe to outdo Author Tunis' rumpled Class of 1911 in display and distinction. When the 1912 Reunion Committee met in Boston last month, the Boston committeemen sported cutaways, top hats and sticks to demonstrate that the local 1912 representation comprised elegant gentlemen not to be confused with Boston's traditional "sloppy dressers." In its first...
...summer of 1935, seven smart Manhattanites, including George McAneny, banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most...
...secured by our contemporary college newspapers aften makes us a bit apologetic about our own home-spun product. Last year the Yale News had an undergraduate columnist of such mettle that recently that paper came forward as publisher of his collected gems at two dollars per copy. Determined to outdo us all, the Daily Princetonian has incorporated Gertrude Stein into its staff. Careful as ever not to appear ostentatious, it does not even advertise its prize, and has made her start from the very botom writing the notice column. Since no one else could have possibly written the line...
...gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the life...
...capital has known but two flags, the French and the British. Today, Mr. President, in your honor and in honor of our great and friendly neighbor, the flag of the United States is flying over the Citadel of old Quebec." When his turn came to show whether he could outdo his hosts in graciousness, President Roosevelt moved forward on the arm of Son James, warmed Canadian hearts by saying: "While I was on my cruise, I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler...