Word: surpass
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With Dartmouth sweeping three of the top four places in the ski-jumping competition to surpass Middlebury in the overall team standing, Harvard's best jumping effort of the season--the Crimson finished second behind the Big Green--got lost in the flurry...
...proud black man, who was a ghetto orphan at six, but now surpass at least 97% of whites in education and income. What I resent is that when you publish a "Black and White Balance Sheet" [Jan. 24], you do not also explain that according to the 1960 census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system really...
...wanted to be unifier and savior, uplifter of the poor at home and father of democracy in Asia. He yearned to be a latter-day Lincoln to the blacks, to outshine F.D.R.'s memory among reformers, to surpass Truman's humane but hardheaded foreign-policy record, to evoke the affection accorded Eisenhower. Above all, Lyndon Johnson ached for the trust of today's voters and the respect of tomorrow's scholars...
...sales will surpass the all-time peak of 9,300,000 set in 1965. Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share...
Yale quarterback Brian Dowling threw a career-high three touchdown passes last week--leading his team to a 25-13 victory over Cornell--and needs only five more this year to surpass the Yale record of 15 TD passes in a year. Three Yale receivers have each caught three touch-down passes, and end Nick Davidson four...