Word: outstripped
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...which gave every state federal lands to support the creation of colleges devoted to vocational training and agricultural research. But these schools have grown faster in the past five years than in any similar period in their history, and in enrollment the public colleges and universities today clearly outstrip the nation's 1,200 private ones. As recently as 1950, the two sectors of higher education had almost equal enrollments; today more than two-thirds of all college students are on a public campus. Educators estimate that in the next decade eight of every ten students entering college will...
...informed production, the inherent social force of the theatre can evoke aspects of men and societies for which the Relevant Issues are only images. But they cannot lure an audience whose cries of "Beat me, Beat me" are ushering in an era of dramatic Social Significance which promises to outstrip the thirties. Nevertheless (although perhaps unhappily), this siren song of the Relevant can be as useful to artists as it is currently seductive to audiences...
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...demands of tourists will almost certainly continue to outstrip the facilities. Says Yosemite Superintendent John Davis: "Our problem is to find out how we can handle visitors without destroying the only things they came to enjoy." Among the proposals that the service is gingerly considering for the most seriously overcrowded parklands: banning autos and shortening permissible visiting time from the present seven- or 14-day limits to as little as three days...
...even old. The New York Philharmonic, for example, was founded in 1842, is 40 years older than the Berlin Philharmonic; the St. Louis Symphony (1885) predates both Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra and the London Symphony. Indeed, by most any yardstick, U.S. orchestras outstrip their counterparts on the Continent. Last season the Vienna Philharmonic performed 50 concerts and the London Symphony 32, while the Philadelphia Orchestra played 179 and the Boston Symphony 206. Of the world's 2,000 orchestras, the U.S. claims 1,401, including 25 that rank as major. France, by contrast, has only two professional symphony...