Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without mentioning the atomic bomb, Stalin promised that Soviet scientists would "not only catch up with but . . . surpass" those abroad. He stressed the role of industry in war, proclaimed that the new five-year plan must work toward production increases big enough "to guarantee our country against any eventuality...
Once again Wyndol Gray, all-America court star from Bowling Green, will lead the Crimson attack; Harvard rooters expect him to surpass his twice-achieved single-game score of 25 points. All of his starting teammates are also ready for action, with playmaker Saul Mariaschin back in top shape again after his thrilling bad-ankle performance in the Yale game...
They did. That was probably their last chance: before the next election, King will retire ("Nothing will change my mind"). But his consuming ambition is to be Prime Minister at least until next June. He would then surpass the 19-year record of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and achieve the distinction of having ruled Canada longer than any other man. The chances that he will are good...
What the Navy had to propose was a fleet that would far surpass the combined fleets of the world (Britain, France and Russia). Before the House Naval Affairs Committee, Secretary James Forrestal summarized it: a 300-ship active fleet, a 100-ship "ready reserve," plus a 700-ship "laid-up reserve" to be called out only under the grimmest conditions...
...rapacious landlords, priests who demanded disproportionate fees for religious services. They pleaded for popular education. They wanted schools, books, modern agricultural science. Said their leader, Francisco Chipana, an Aymara: "We must learn and work. . . . Soon we shall rise like condors above Mt. Illimani.... Through our own efforts, we can surpass those foreigners whose works we now admire...