Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatly that the course they advocated involved risk of war. Perhaps they deceived themselves. Certainly they deceived all those who wanted to be deceived. Although in his acceptance speech Wendell Willkie had warned that no man could foresee the future clearly enough to promise peace, and had promised to outdo Adolf Hitler in any contest Hitler chose ("Energy against energy, production against production, salesmanship against salesmanship . . .") he did not preach an active crusade against Hitler, whose morals he deplored. Although Franklin Roosevelt had spelled out the menace to the U. S. in appeasing Hitler, he did not point...
With no read issues splitting the parties, the Government professor sees the campaign as one of personalities. "The only class Willkie has appealed to is business. In labor and agriculture he is trying to outdo Roosevelt, while on foreign policy he is being vaguer to catch more votes...
Virginia City (Warner Bros.). One day fortnight ago Virginia City, Nev. looked wilder and more Western than it has since the Grosch boys found the Comstock Lode. Warner Brothers were trying to outdo their last year's premiere of Dodge City in Dodge City by previewing Virginia City in Virginia City. They succeeded-with the help of nearby (22 miles) Reno...