Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eats, Drinks and Be-merries." Inside, the place looked just like what it was supposed to be: an oldfashioned beer & music hall, with advertisements painted on the olio, tin guards over the footlights. Not only in the matter of eats, drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently...
...conclusion-jumper. Last week his own newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race...
Gratian Yatsevitch '33, of the Harvard Fencing Club led the qualifiers in the former class, barely beating Webster F. Williams '35 by one point in the total number of points scored. John G. Hurd '34 qualified in third position. Hurd showed unusual skill in the folls matches to surpass the rest of the contestants by several points. Gilbert Kerlin 1L captured second place, and Yatsevitch and Philip E. Lilienthal '35 placed third and fourth respectively...
...members, the best-dressed group of men in the U. S., have conferred on their officials absolute and arbitrary powers. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange can do anything they want, and from their decision there is no appeal. No rule or regulation can surpass the finality of the Exchange's famed blanket clause: "A member who shall have been adjudged . . . guilty of conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade, may be suspended or expelled." Its only peer is the 95th Article of War, with its famed phrase "conduct unbecoming an officer...
...Since the Soviet Union is not represented in Federation Aeronautique Internationale its records are not officially recognized. However, both Osoaviakhim's and last year's Red Army performances surpass the official world's record of 61,237 ft. made last November by Lieut. Commander G. W. ("Tex") Settle, U. S. N. and Major Chester L. Fordney...