Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of questions they ask. The number of commands issued, on the other hand, reaches a peak at the age of 4, declines slowly thereafter. Girls show a faster general rate of development than boys. They ask more questions, issue more commands, say more "noes," do more gossiping. Boys surpass them only in fondness for meaningless words, babblings, gurglings, imitations of animals...
...will have to go sculling down the Charles in a single every day if the number of men out for the individualist's sport continues to increase as it has in the last few years. The average number of men reporting daily for the sport this year promises to surpass by a considerable margin the previous all-time record made last year...
...Before many years have passed we will see a total annual production of steel that will surpass anything in the history of the industry...
...lectures, which are delivered principally by Professor Matthiessen and Dr. Miller. Of course the lectures give information necessary to an understanding of the required reading, but above all else they make even the dullest student interested in the books which he is about to read. Few general survey courses surpass English 33 in point of ability to raise interest in the subject...
Three lectures each week account for all the material which must be assimilated in order to pass the examinations. When the subject being discussed lends itself toward especial interest, Professor Mather disports himself before his 200-odd students in a manner which few can hope to imitate, much less surpass. When the subject matter occasionally turns boresome, the lecturer does his best to put spice into the presentation; but this often proves absolutely futile...