Word: outstrips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
...House of Representatives for months a great race has been quietly but breathlessly going on between two committees. The contest is to see who can outstrip whom in helping The Veteran help himself to the U. S. Treasury. The committees: 1) Pensions, headed by South Carolina's Allard Henry Casque (pronounced Gaski), whose own military experience is limited to honorary membership in the United Spanish War Veterans, and 2) the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, whose chairman is Mississippi's loud, bushy-haired John Elliott Rankin. Congressman Rankin lists himself in his official biography...
...recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does, on the basis of straw polls, expect to outstrip every other third-party man in next week's election...
...keep the balance amongst President Conant's "four essential ingredients" that make up an American university: "the advancement of learning, the liberal arts college, professional training, and a healthy student life." The balance varies from time to time; at the moment there is danger that pure learning may outstrip the liberal arts because of Mr. Conant's emphasis on research work. But as learning makes the life blood of the arts, so the arts stimulate men's minds for things intellectual and start them on a feast of which college is no more than the hors d'oeuvres. Then, professional...
...Aside from a general animosity toward the New Deal, the cause of this talk was the tendency for costs to rise faster than sales, so that many a company was reporting smaller profits on greater volume of business. It was merely a matter of time before increasing sales would outstrip increasing expenses, thereby cutting the cost of each unit they produced. Last week the return of profitable prosperity was conspicuously evident in at least three industries...