Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt and interesting time, unimportant. As for any inflammatory content?one can think off-hand of half-a-dozen recent popular and unindicted successes that far surpass it in "frankness"?it has no cheap tricks of titillation about it at all?and a review in. the New York Evening Post even complained of supposed expurgations in the English version. Dr. Carl Van Doren of Columbia University has declared the book to be "the most finished piece...
...route to England with an official exhibit of the various issues which this country has printed. He will enter this display, arranged in the form of a gigantic shield, in the International Stamp Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London; and it is expected that the American shield will surpass the exhibit of any other nation in beauty and value. President Harding himself has described it as "an exhibit worthy of so great a country...
...March This is greater even than the output of September, 1918, at the climax of war production. Daily average production is at the rate of 42,500,000 tons per annum-another record. More furnaces are scheduled to go into blast, and output for the current April may even surpass March figures. Both producers and consumers are becoming conservative, however, and prices have steadied, though premiums for early deliveries have, if anything, increased. Pig iron production is a favorite barometer ot prosperity, and from the present tremendous output some students conclude an equally sizable period ot prosperity is at hand...
There are subtle touches in this play which surpass all that one has come to expect of Milne, and there is a deeper sincerity. It is less laughable than some of his others, but more penetrating, and so more permanently enjoyable...
...mood for a quarter of an hour. It was a satisfaction to have Mr. Wingfield in the company again. His range is narrower than Mr. Clive's, but in the type of part which he has in this play--that of the puzzled father--he would be hard to surpass. The others did equally careful characterizing, and when Mr. Jewett called on each member of the company in turn for a curtain-speech, their gracious words won merited rounds of applause...