Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inhabitants of other worlds could be like us, but they could also be much superior to us in sense and will. And perhaps they also surpass us in gratitude to the Creator and in goodness and love to all that demands love and kindness. [But] in principle we must say that the Christian order of redemption was realized by God for this world . . . Only we, who are descended from Adam, are born in original sin, and God became man to redeem us ... His church and His sacraments are [not] valid for . . . other planets...
...million) and gross national product ($385 billion) would hold up. Sales, production and capital expenditures might soar even higher. Half predicted that second-half profits would be even better than the year's first half, and more than three-fourths predicted that 1955 earnings before taxes would easily surpass 1954's. Said the N.I.C.B.: "Business in the remainder of 1955 will be just as good as it was during the record first half, if not better...
...LIFE photographers often go to extraordinary lengths. Samples: ¶ On the frozen fastness of the Canadian arctic, LIFE Photographer Fritz Goro and Reporter James Goode worked for seven weeks in silent isolation, photographing a corner of the world few men had ever seen before, where the weather extremes far surpass the farthest reaches of the arctic. Their radio could receive messages but could not send. Movement was so difficult that it once took them five days to reach a photographic objective barely ten miles from their two-tent camp. For another five days, rising water in the spring thaw completely...
...went on to expand on his points: Industry. "Conditions in America are very advanced and none can reach, let alone surpass, the progress in that country," said onetime Marxist U Nu. He cited examples. He had been skeptical that Ford could put a car together in two minutes, but while he watched, Ford workmen put one together in 58 seconds. In Knoxville, Tenn., a waiter in a small hotel told him he owned two cars (one for himself and one for his wife) and earned as much money as the Premier...
...textile workers. After the fighting, he switched to the Cheka, where he bloodily put the agitators down. It was Kaganovich who sent Bulganin to Moscow to serve on the High Soviet of People's Economy. The High Soviet's appointed task: "To catch up with and surpass America...