Word: surmountable
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Christmas Eve (Boqeous; United Artists), a less appetizing holiday confection, concerns an eccentric old gotrocks (Ann Harding) and her far-flung adopted sons (George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott). They surmount the world, the flesh and the devil to reach her side on Christmas Eve-just in time to save her from the booby hatch for spending $500,000 on 500,000 dead rats. Producer Benedict Bogeaus spent considerably more on this dead...
...armies had given him the city of Antung. His people paraded, ate "longevity noodles," displayed a million photographs and set off a billion firecrackers. In recently starving Hunan Province, his statue would soon surmount a mountain peak. Over Nanking, formations of Chinese airforce planes spelled out "six ten longevity...
...effort it may make to cooperate with the Protestants ... in even so vast a cause.... Its solemn claim to be the exclusive and infallible authority in all things spiritual ... [is] a hurdle which only a holy passion for the security of the world can enable it to surmount...
...problems, kept charging ahead. Result: the rubber program is shaping up excellently. Then, wholly uninfected by Washington, he announced that, barring production mishaps, he would resign on July 1 and go back to his job as president of Union Pacific. This was cheering news; apparently one man could surmount the lure of the spotlight...
There was West Point, where he had spent five years instead of four, because of certain curricular difficulties which took more than blood and guts to surmount...