Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This year the Conference starts with very bright prospects and there is every reason to believe that its success will equal if not surpass that of the past...
...Mississippi, and its natural resources. He said that the income to our national treasury from the fur industry alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities of fish in the neighboring waters, forests which surpass those of Maine, great coal fields, and petroleum and precious metals in abundance. The climate of the southern coast in winter is as mild as that of Virginia, and its only drawback is rain...
...bound volumes added to the University Library during the year, 10,885 were added to Gore Hall. 4027 to the Divinity School, 677 to the Law School and the rest scattered amongst the various departments. These accessions are the largest on record, and surpass the number of volumes added during the academic year 1886-87 by about 4,500 volumes. The present extent of the University Library is 343,318 bound volumes, and 276,682 pamphlets...
...only by his presence, encourage and help on the club. There is no reason why there should not be a fencing club as well as a sparring club, or a club for the encouragement of any branch of athletics; for surely there are few kinds of exercise which surpass fencing in bene ficial effects, or as a training for the muscles. Therefore, let every man who can, be present Thursday evening and help the formation of a club which shall keep up the interest in one of the best forms of exercise which all can enjoy...
...Cornell Era says: "It is very noticeable how much the student publications of Yale and Harvard surpass those of all other colleges in literary qualities...