Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American inventive and copy genius and production has been able to surpass in three years what the Germans...
...Sing Out" seemingly would have all the ingredients of the "Oklahoma!" it is quite obviously attempting to surpass, but when you get right down to it, they just aren't there. The fact that the music does not have basic creative ingenuity somehow prevents you from carrying its spirit beyond the theatre...
...spread and act upon rumor and exaggeration is a fault to which Chinese and U.S. soldiers are especially prone. The Chinese like to indulge "the vicious habit" of self-dramatization, and flattery of their superiors. But, "of the many exaggerated stories I have heard in seven years . . . none can surpass those told by American pilots and infantrymen...
When Jim Reed retired in 1929, an acid flavor, very American, went out of U.S. political life. Bill Borah was a greater orator. But none could surpass Jim Reed in righteous anger or in-as newsmen at the time called it-the "rhinestone rhythm" of his speech. He was the delight of the galleries, the despair and envy of his foes. Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot...
...decided she wanted to "attend the coronation," married Lord Decies (and outlived him by four months). Quitting Paris for the U.S. when the Nazis invaded, Lady Decies continued her society shenanigans, to the edification of provincial Americans. Her bejeweled presence kept society reporters scratching for phrases to surpass the brash New York Daily News's report of her wearing a tiara "the size of a nail...