Word: surpasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registration in the University this year may yet surpass the 1916 record. There are at present 5481 men enrolled. Yet there are a number of institutions larger than this--a few in actual totals of bona fide students, the majority through secretarial, agricultural and night school courses, whose members are only part-time students...
...Mecca," the newest extravaganza of Morris Gest, which opened at the Century Theatre in New York on Monday evening, is said to surpass by far his previous lavish spectacles, such as "Chu Chin Chow" and "Aphrodite...
...speed to compare favorably with their Yale rivals. Aldrich especially is a powerful hitter, and, though awkward in the field, is equipped with a remarkably strong arm. Since Holmes is not so blessed and cannot equal Lincoln in the field, it is expected that the University third sacker will surpass his opponent if he maintains his present stride in hitting...
...average undergraduate at Oxford or Cambridge is far superior to the typical American college student, while the American graduate schools greatly surpass those of the English universities, according to an article by Mr. Harold J. Laski, lecturer in the Department of History at the University, which appeared recently in the Anglo-American number of the "Manchester Guardian...
...contentions shall be acceded to. The addition, thus necessitated, brings the list of propositions up to six. If, against them, any considerable proportion of the 35,000 or 40,000 faculty persons and the 200,000 undergraduates, in American college and universities, record themselves sincerely, the result will doubtless surpass in interest and importance any straw vote ever taken before. For the colleges and universities offer unusual facilities for organizing the voting, just as they provide a body of voters whose opinion will be peculiarly worth noting, especially as the faculty vote and the student vote will be tabulated separately...