Word: surmountable
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...Inch & Brothers. For long-term relief the hope lay in Big Inch and other lines like it. Big Inch, when finished, will be an engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
...risks we take or judge our acts. For you, the French people, it is simply a question of following me without mental reservations along the path of honor and national interest. If through our close discipline and our public spirit we can conduct the negotiations in progress, France will surmount her defeat and preserve in the world her rank as a European and colonial power. That, my dear friends, is all that I have to say to you today...
...fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles, and a mellow, not a blatant, memory...
Jeanette MacDonalds "Broadway Serenade," receiving the dubious honor of top-billing, is singularly devoid of all the elements that make a good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney...
Problems that the board must surmount are varied; speeches must be more sharply worded than necessary on the stare; the number of characters speaking in one scene must be limited to prevent confusion; the time element must be surmounted; all sounds must be mentioned by the characters in the play so that they can be clearly recognized. All these factors contribute to the smoothness of the production and are apparent weaknesses in present radio drama...