Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just as the automobile drove the less convenient horse and buggy off the street, as the steamship out-sailed the sailing ship, as the printed book displaced the handwritten manu script, so will radio outdo the slower, more expensive and cumbersome newspaper, as a distributor of news...
...risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code's weakened any boycott appeal. And there remained a chance that, when he did announce his plans, sly old Henry Ford, again with the White House for his amplifier, would outdo the NRA and his competitors in other respects than hours & wages...
...which has graced so many previous occasions." Last week came a climax in Miss Dev- ereux's professional life. The daughter of the Enquirer's Editor William F. Wiley -her boss's daughter-was being married. Now her page, already a marvel of descriptive prose, must outdo itself. Marion Devereux rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event of wide importance both for its social interest and owing to the fact that the fathers of both...
Meanwhile, during the past month, the Committee of Nineteen's sub-Committee of Nine had been playing a diddling game of questions & answers with Japanese Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, each side trying to outdo the other in feats of diplomatic finesse. This parlor pastime abruptly ceased as the sub-Committee buckled down to drafting the suggestions of M. Massigli and Captain Eden into form for action by the Assembly...
...Yale will be represented by a powerful contingent in the field events. Crowley and Malin have been approaching 48 feet in prctice in the shot put event: Healey and Kuehn have tossed but 44 feet in recent work-outs. The big Lowell redhead, however, looked good Thursday and may outdo the veteran Kuehn. Yale has little 35-pound weight material, but with Lee doing 14 feet in the pole vault and with such stars as Pierce and Williamson around to take more point, the Eli, in sprite of Sutermeister, are scheduled to take the event in grand style. Harvard will...