Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, Russia used hard figures, not meaningless percentages. Russian steel production (a mere 4,300,000 tons in 1928) was 45.2 million tons last year, and the 1960 target is 68.3 million tons. Though this falls far short of U.S. 1955 output of 106 million tons, it appears to surpass that of France and Germany combined. The Soviet Union plans to top U.S. coal output next year. If the Russians fulfill their goal of raising national income 60% by 1960, they will have to be at two-thirds of the present U.S. economic strength, and will have achieved the broad...
...feel that anyone who would commit himself to something he does not honestly believe merely for the sake of a few (or even a great many) votes, might do almost anything. Who knows? If he is willing to trade personal belief for votes, he might, if elected, surpass the trading at Yalta. While my vote is not yet for anyone, it is certainly against Stevenson...
Incomplete preliminary figures from this term's Combined Charities drive, now standing at $11,000, indicate that this year's contributions should equal or surpass last year's total of $14,000, Edward M. Strasser '56, co-chairman of the drive, announced last night...
...state so casually that "No man in either U.S. party approaches him (Ike) in stature" is just too much. Fortunately, there are many men in at least one party who surpass Eisenhower in many characteristics. It is too bad that the Republican Party is so bankrupt (with its Jenners, Knowlands, Nixons, Dirksens and McCarthys). I do believe most strongly in the two-party system, but I would hate to think that our country would have to depend entirely...
...revealed the caliber of his genius: with a few deft brush strokes on green paper, he was able to depict the figure of an aged apostle fully molded, superbly draped and dramatically lighted, with a power and emotional impact that few oil painters could surpass...