Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked at the memorial group which the villagers of St. Heminy have erected in honor of their eminent neighbor in his lifetime. It is a fitting tribute to his achievements. But some day, perhaps, only Les Invalides will surpass the monuments in Paris which a grateful Nation will erect to Georges Clemenceau...
...college will do better than their best, and that all the men from the rival college will do worse than their worst. That is an unwarranted assumption. In actual competition this afternoon, it is practically certain that some men from each team will fall short of expectations, and some surpass them...
...York and for Yale undergraduates. In addition, rush seats will be on sale from now on at the H.A.A. and at the Soldiers Field gates on Saturday afternoon, as the regular season ticket books will not be good for this meet. The total attendance is expected to surpass by a sizeable margin the crowd of 5000 which watched Coach Bingham's team defeat Yale in the Stadium two years...
...last concert its greatest jewel. Such, certainly is the record of Pierre Monteux, who Thursday evening took leave of Cambridge, and yesterday afternoon commenced a two days' farewell to Boston. The concert was a real culmination, and it seems almost certain that Mr. Monteux will be unable to surpass it, if he succeeds in equalling it, this evening. It is, perhaps, needless to record the almost frenzied ovation be received, including all the stamping and "Bravo" yelling one could have expected in New York or Paris...
...German Government and the public, and half by an Allied "Railway Commissioner," who is to be "a person accepted in the railway world as being in the front rank," whose duties are to be fixed "in considerable detail." The net revenue from the railway is expected to surpass $250,000,000 per annum, the whole of which is applicable to reparations payments...