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Word: overtops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...last week enough manufacturers of motor vehicles had announced production figures for April to indicate that their sales this season would overtop last year. Some statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motor Situation | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...proposed Larkin tower in New York is to be 1208 feet high. It will overtop the Woolworth building and the Eiffel tower, and it will seriously threaten the limits of human credibility. It is to be an office building, with the four top stories given over to sightseers; but from the architect's drawing there is to be no mother-of-pearl gilding such as makes the Singer building gaudy. It is to be strictly business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MONUMENT TO THE SKIES | 12/22/1926 | See Source »

...Saltus Club is well-known for the number of skillful fencing teams it has entered in championship meets in and around New York City and this year's team is believed to overtop even the skilful team of last year. The Saltus Club is a French organization, sometimes called the French Y. M. C. A., and many technical descendants of d'Artagnan have been developed in its Salle d'Armes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG OPPONENTS TO MEET CRIMSON OUTFITS | 2/27/1926 | See Source »

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