Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John H. Carnahan '50, chairman of the Student Council Freshman Affairs Committee, asserted last night that, "an attempt will be made to surpass all previous smoker gaiety," but added that he felt "this is a difficult standard to beat...
...Hollywood farce that the Rankin Committee is directing this week threatens, in irresponsibility and blindness to facts, to surpass all other recent attempts to uproot America's Communist menace. Depending on the testimony of political experts of the caliber of Adolphe Menjou, the Committee seeks to prove that the celluloid capital is a dispensary of Red propaganda. Meanwhile, a bevy of eminent movie producers are defending themselves like criminals against the charge of having made films, during the war, that seemed friendly to our erstwhile allies, the Russian people...
...came. For Provisional President they picked soft-spoken Angel Morales, 50, Dominican Minister to Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough for a Hollywood premiere (TIME, Aug. 11), the Dominican plotters were still preparing...
...would take all of. Straight's enterprise and all of Sir Harold's science to get BOAC through the next five years. That is the estimated minimum time it will take the British aircraft industry to perfect the jet transports with which it hopes to surpass U.S. planes. Until then, BOAC will have to make do with obsolete, uneconomic transports, many of them converted bombers, and with intermediate new models now abuilding, such as the big Shetland flying boat (see cut). BOAC bought five Constellations, was about to get more when the Labor Government forbade it to spend...
...American with an eye to the past and an ear to the future can ignore it. These fifty-three may not be full-grown Hemingways, Dos Passos, or Remarques, but in their simplicity and humanness they have reached points of literary clarity and feeling that are difficult to surpass...