Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shattering all knows records, Robert K. Rogers, Lowell House Senior, devoured a total of 24 ice creams to completely surpass the former records set by Messrs. David "Kentucky" Mitchell and Homer Peabody, of the Freshman class...
When in the first scene 59-year-old George M. Cohan, answering to the name of President Roosevelt in top hat, cutaway and pince-nez, summoned his Cabinet to a meeting in Manhattan's Central Park, playgoers settled down to a show they expected to surpass Of Thee I Sing. But they soon found it was not as good as all that...
...course the usual tales of the valour of the national defenders find their way into the newspapers day after day. Some of these undoubtedly are true, but others simply surpass belief. The prize one so far is this which appeared in the Japan Times. A party of Japanese soldiers were out on scouting duty, when they observed a much larger party of Chinese, apparently bent on the same mission, approaching them. Concealing themselves, the party of eleven Japanese waited until the right moment came, then rushed forth and threw themselves upon the Chinese, engaging them in hand-to-hand conflict...
Although Soviet industry is thus limping, Soviet agriculture seemed last week about to surpass this year in grain harvested and threshed the previous alltime Russian record of 105,000,000 metric tons. All Soviet grains have done well in 1937 with the possible exception of corn. In Rotterdam grain traders were glum as the Soviet Union reopened its selling agency, apparently ready to unload on Europe this fall enough produce to depress prices seriously. Within a few hours Russia's Rotterdam agents were selling wheat and barley in such volume that the Soviet Union's offerings were virtually...
...Skipper Sopwith won the first two races before losing the series to Skipper Vanderbilt's Rainbow. The historic one-sidedness of this year's series caused the more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...