Word: outdoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aggregation in the East, barely nosed out the Elis three weeks ago, but Princeton was snowed under on Saturday by an avalanche of record Eli times and distances. It is impossible to compare he summaries of the Yale-Princeton and Harvard Dartmouth meets without seeing that the Crimson must outdo itself to destroy Yale's paper edge...
Each city tried to outdo the others in hospitality. Rochester was the first city on the itinerary. The Clubs arrived there at 11 o'clock the morning of December 26. A Harvard Club luncheon at the Sagamore Hotel was followed by a short visit to the Eastman Kodak plant. A tea dance at a private home occupied the members the rest of the afternoon until they split to attend three different dinners given in their honor before the concert at the Community Players' Theatre. A full appreciative house applauded the performance, honors going to J. S. B. Archer '30, soloist...
...from the monkey glands of Mrs. Atherton's Black Oxen to The Immortal Marriage of Pericles and Aspasia. But classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggle-one night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced...
...black" capitalists-these things young Hearst had observed in the methods of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World; and he practiced them in San Francisco. Later, in 1895, when his father left him a $17,000,000 estate, he bought the New York Journal and set out to outdo Pulitzer...
Harvard id fighting a decidedly uphill fight, with the responsibility resting upon men who will have to outdo themselves to break into the scoring and bring the Crimson total above the blue. Yale is conceded to hold a slight advantage in the running features, but the University appears to lead in the field events...