Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tastes of a public which has acquired its musical appreciation through the cinema and canned music." Said El Universal: "Through the hall of our great Bellas Artes Theater there reigned ... a contagious chilliness. ..." Said the English-language critic of Novedades: "It seemed the result of a desire to outdo Kostelanetz in misplaced lushness. All that remains now is to transcribe the work [Debussy's Clair de Lune]. . . for the Wurlitzer organ...
...they are saved from complete despair by that very resigned skepticism which through many generations has made them see that whatever the Government, aristocratic or popular-front, German or North American, their life will be the same. . . . They fight over futile things, and they outdo each other in trying to say the last and most hurting word, in increasing the confusion and mistrust...
...carrier Ticonderoga was launched, towed off to the fitting-out dock, the ninth of the new Essex class to be launched since 1942. Ticonderoga was also one of the early 1944 guaranties by the world's most powerful navy that this year's building would outdo the spectacular record...
Governor Dwight P. Griswold of Nebraska, who had bravely wagered a hog with each of 27 other governors that Nebraska would outdo their states in the war-bond drive, was finally snatched off his hotspot by thoughtful friends. They bought 26 hogs at a livestock show, gave them to him. He may be ahead of the game. After shipping twelve hogs, he decided to postpone the rest of his pay-offs until the Treasury issued its final figures...
...Corps, doing quite a good job of marching and that falsetto yodelling of their's . . . which must make you wonder "When are we going to be able to do that?". The answer, as far as the vocal refrains go is that words to the songs we're going to outdo them with are being mimeographed and we'll be working on them within the week, or at least so say Middles Davies and Blake, promoters of the project. As far as the marching goes, mates, the word is that that's entirely upto us. The sooner we make the grade...