Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite unsound to limit our attention to atomic bombs of the present type. These bombs are the results of first attempts, and they were developed under wartime pressure. ... In a subject as new as atomic power, we must be prepared for startling developments. . . . Future bombs may easily surpass those used in the last war by a factor of a thousand...
...Naples, Rome, Florence and Pisa, though ostracized by such respectable English tourists as Walter Savage Landor, Shelley wrote the poetry by which he is best remembered. He thought Keats "a rival who will surpass me" and invited the dying poet to join him; Keats was touched but had enough sense not to. After the "Peterloo massacre" of working people in Manchester, Shelley wrote his Mask of Anarchy, a revolutionary poem of memorable drive...
This crossword puzzle is all worked out very suavely by one of the most workmanlike of narrative puzzle-makers. Graves's account of Jesus' childhood in Egypt is written with simplicity and reverence; his accounts of ancient ritual surpass anything in The Golden Bough; his reporting of ancient theological discussions is sometimes dull but often absorbing, for Graves is a writer of practiced lucidity. If it could be read in the same spirit as the Claudius books, King Jesus would be fair enough reading...
...discouraging though. The French were cheered the other day by a scientist's prediction that Germany's population is now on a decline and France's might conceivably surpass it in fifty years. Nothing could bring more peace of mind to France than the fulfillment tomorrow of that prediction, but just what the French are doing to make it come true could not be accurately ascertained by this reporter. The wine is good, though, and the dress shops and perfume counters again bear testimony to that peculiar aspect of French genius. Thanks to the industrious, if not too successful efforts...
Besides being vulnerable upon other counts this folksy little essay is hard to surpass as an example of the oversimplification that passes for psychology among so many economists and political scientists. It is an impeccable discussion of the motivation of the donkey, but used in reference to human beings it applies only to those who literally wish to make jackasses of themselves...