Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race with Wilson for top position in the industry. Spalding, now second with 1954 sales of $27.2 million, is negotiating a deal to acquire Rawlings Manufacturing Co., the fourth biggest company, with estimated annual sales of nearly $12 million. Combined sales of Spalding-Rawlings are expected to equal or surpass those of Wilson, which is a division of Wilson & Co. meat packers, thus does not announce its annual sales figures separately...
...important that the swirls and splashes convey nothing at all to the viewer, except an uneasy feeling that the artist must be energetic and very angry. But Mathieu's paintings surpass the average of their kind precisely because they fail to be quite meaningless. Despite himself, Mathieu's interlocked squiggles of toothpaste white, tarry black smears, and ocher, green and crimson flashes bring to mind the night driver's world of electric lights, flashing neon and high speeds...
Although Russia may temporarily surpass the United States in technological development, the American system of education will ultimately prove superior, President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 predicted yesterday in the Spaulding Lecture in Education, delivered at Yale...
...unheard-of blessing of two top quality divers on the same freshman swimming team unfortunately shouldn't make Coach Bill Brooks' tenth year here approach the success of his ninth. Diving is the only event promising to surpass what Brooks calls the "phenomenal" 8-1 record of last year's team. The freshmen have six or seven consistent winners, but the lack of depth that was concealed in the easy Brookline and St. George victories will probably be obvious against subsequent opponents starting at Exeter...
...only area in which Yale will equal or surpass Harvard will be in paying some instructors as much as $4,200. At present, Harvard pays all instructors $4,000 per year...