Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to amaze the reader with its culture" he is making a low bow in the direction of the stables of Pegasus. The insinuation, obviously enough is to the effect that in spite of Rockwell Kent and a highly developed aesthetic complex the Hound and Horn has yet to surpass the oldest of college publications...
...Significance. Called by some "the most important literary find of the century," these papers alone probably surpass any other existing collection of Boswelliana, of which the finest hitherto have been those owned by Robert B. Adam, Buffalo (N. Y.) collector, and by Alfred Edward Newton of Philadelphia. The value of the collection varies widely in different estimates. It is insured for about $100,000; experts agree that on the market it would bring from $20,000 to $150,000. But to Boswellians and students of 18th Century letters, these documents are undoubtedly beyond price...
...King loves, and believes he has always loved, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI. For her Ludwig has built Linderhof, an improvement (think Bavarians) on the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Then, because he admires le grand Monarque, Louis XIV, King Ludwig has built Herrenschiemsee?to surpass even the Palace of Versailles...
...Hence we must at a given moment be able to mobilize 5,000,000 men thoroughly armed, we must strengthen our navy; while aviation, in which I believe more than ever, must be on such a large scale and so powerful that the noise of its motors must surpass any other noise, and the area of the wings of our airplanes must obscure the sun from our land. Then between 1935 and 1940, when we shall reach the crucial point in European history, we will be able to make our voice heard, and see at last our rights acknowledged [loud...
...hits for 15 runs while Yale was able to amass only five runs off the offerings of Booth and Cutts. Yale turned the tables two days later on the waters of the Thames, entering a crew in the time honored four mile classic, which was strong enough to surpass the best efforts of Harvard's oarsmen by a good two lengths...