Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significant that the airplane, instrument of swiftest progress, was purchased by a "24-hour newspaper" (morning and evening combination) and the only newspaper in its city. It is to be used as part of the regular equipment, not as a stunting device to outdo, for the moment, a competitor...
...will be David Guarnaccia '29 and C. A. Pratt '28. The pole vault promises to be a close fight between F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, and Prout, Michigan's veteran. F. T. Burgess '30, Harvard's only entry in the high jump, will have to outdo Waldo, who has cleared 5 feet, 10 5-8 inches to take second in the recent Big Ten meet...
...Governor Dan Moody of Texas was the timely and deciding, if not a really serious, factor. He arrived late, after other bidders had tried to outdo Mr. Jones. Balloting was just about to start when in he burst?34 years old, red haired, grinning unofficially. Mr. Jones brought the committeemen to their feet with a superb gesture and Governor Dan Moody cried, "It is not only the people of Houston who invite you but also the people of Texas...
...humor, saw that he was put in jail, with the implication that it might be a glass house where one could break stones and not throw them. But Mr. Enwright was not cast down, and arose Prometheus like with his sickly pinkish paper which is an avowed attempt to outdo the most rabid tabloids. And it is unbelievably successful...
...there was one voice raised besides George Bernard Scrooge's. It was a superb opportunity for that professionally altruistic sheetlet the Nation, and the voice therein belonged to one Eugene Lyons. To his editor's delight, Writer Lyons burlesqued the annual spectacle of U. S. newspapers trying to outdo one another in seasonal generosity and solicitude. He pictured Prosperity, "a big, blustering fellow," momentarily obscured in the national circus by sideshows of infirmity and destitution...