Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning, Terry equalled the feat achieved by B.U.'s John Kelly last year. Most observers in Boston have felt all year that Terry will surpass Kelly's cross country and track achievements before he graduates. Terry was undefeated this fall, including a first place in a triangular meet with Harvard and Providence which the Crimson...
From today's meet, McCurdy may be able to tell just how much A1 Wills will contribute to the squad. So far this season Wills has not finished higher than third, but McCurdy in counting on him to surpass both Morris and French, outstanding runners in the early meets...
...world that inspires artists. French Author-Critic André Malraux, a European cultivated to the breaking point, put that idea across in The Voices of Silence (TIME, Feb. 15). Yet painters who prefer the fields to the museums, and who try to describe nature rather than to repeat or surpass another man's picture, do not fit this theory. The U.S. has been rich in such artists, as it has been poor in art traditions. Even now, with objective painting on the wane every where, America has its Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield...
...executive branch had spent $3.3 billion less than Congress had appropriated. The biggest savings were in outlays for defense and mutual security. The Defense Department alone reduced military spending by $1.4 billion; mutual-aid spending was down $680 million. All told, to offset tax and revenue cuts and still surpass the President's goal, the Administration had to stay $10 billion below the Truman estimates...
...with Harvard's libraries, prestige, faculty, proximity to cultural and metropolitan Boston, and relations with nearby denominational schools of theology, the Divinity School had the potential to rival, if not surpass these other schools, and also to regain equal footing with the other graduate schools of the University...