Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach the $300 billion level, said Wilson, the labor unions, which had already achieved "monopolistic" power to "dominate and control the economy," would have to exercise statesmanship. "If the unions strive only to outdo one another in their demands, and Government-by-edict enforces an endless series of wage increases without regard to industry's costs, it will lead, inevitably, to nationalization of industry...
...Hadden's career as an editorial prodigy progressed, according to Busch, "with the speed and directness of an arrow." As a moppet he entertained his family with such epic poems as The Mouse's Party, which ran to 142 stanzas because its author was out to outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style...
...Away. Even now, well-heeled nomads can outdo Phileas Fogg by taking a trip around the world in 6½ days for only $1,700. Returning from such a jaunt, wiry Eddie Eagan, New York State boxing commissioner and a Yale classmate ('21) of Trippe's, assured the Circumnavigators Club that it was a cinch: all you needed was a toothbrush, a good book and a few sleeping pills...
From there on, the delegates tried to outdo each other in expressions of fealty. They decided that his birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their...
...this gay but canny mood, Edinburgh last week welcomed some 40,000 to its second annual, three-week "wee drap o' music an' drama." Edinburgh had spent $400,000 to outdo even the prewar glamor of Austria's Salzburg...