Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every twelve months must be constantly campaigning. He must make demands and produce wage boosts and other concessions every year if he is to keep his job. With such pressure behind him at the bargaining table, he cannot concede even to legitimate management claims. His concrete achievements must surpass even the airy promises of rival factions. The employers who propose this measure in the interests of "union democracy" are doing a disservice to the cause of good labor-management relations. And they will be creating a Frankenstein monster from which they will find escape both difficult and costly...
Even to live up to the 19-point odds against them, the Crimson must show a new and better defense in the line, while to make it a ball game the offensive unit must regain and surpass its Columbia form...
...brushed loosely and brightly in the manner of Monet,* and a rather plain blonde mooning over a plum in a cafe which Degas might have painted. Their sources were often apparent, but Manet's clean, revealing light raised each picture above the level of imitation and tended to surpass even his chosen masters'. That same light had long made Manet a laughingstock of Paris...
...Young Republican Club spring membership drive will great students as they return from their between-terms vacation, William A. Rusher, president of the club, announced last night. Rusher also revealed that he expected the membership amassed by the drive to surpass all previous enrollments of University political groups...
...institutions capable of pulling a class together, the Smoker is one of the only ways to dispel the apathy so prevalent now. The present 1951 attempt to "surpass all previous Smoker gaiety" should not be stymied by the abortive affair of last year, when the Class of '48 was forced by fear of publicity to forego Jane Russell for chalk talks by Dahl, and finally to forego Dahl for no Smoker. But publicity is unfavorable only if riots and abductions ensue, and by vetoing the get-together, University Hall only intensified the disunity already present...