Word: surpass
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Beginning with a congregation of 13, Bil lington now has 17,000 parishioners, presides over Sunday crowds that surpass 10,000 in church and Sunday school, supervises an annual budget of $620,000 drawn from weekly collections that average $10,750, supports the work of 160 missionaries, and draws vast plans for expansion. A new, $500,000 addition will soon be made to the $6,000,000 temple's four red brick buildings...
...back to 1581). "The loose use of the name of the Deity in the realm of the law should not be a matter of our approval," said Justice Michael A. Musmanno. "There is something shocking in attributing any tragedy or holocaust to God. The ways of the Deity so surpass the understanding of man that it is not the province of man to pass judgment upon what may be beyond human comprehension...
Before this year, the number of students applying rose by about 80 with each succeeding class. But the present freshman class has yet to surpass the total for the class of 1964, and it is doubtful that late test scores will raise the freshman total by more than five or six students...
Values & Tradition. President Kennedy and his Administration clearly have it within their power to begin the job of building an alliance of free nations sharing the same values and traditions. The U.S. is by far the richest nation on earth; its allies in Western Europe far surpass Russia in wealth, industrial strength and manpower skill. Despite Nikita Khrushchev's vaunted boast to "bury" capitalism, the Soviet world is decades away from matching U.S. productivity and has not come near to solving a critical agricultural problem (TIME, May 26). In the so-called "peaceful competition" with the West, Khrushchev...
...miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white man came his diseases: in the native village of Meinaco, 177 Indians died after being exposed to a white...