Word: surpasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foreign Minister began to reply -softly at first-the excited Deputies seemed less than usually responsive to the persuasive cadence of his cello voice. If M. Briand was to turn the tide he must indeed surpass himself, and presently, magnificently...
Endurance Attempts. The Question Mark stayed in the air 150 hrs. (TIME, Jan. 14). The Fort Worth stayed up 172½ hrs. (TIME, June 3). To surpass these records four planes were flying last week. At Cleveland R. L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb took up the Stinson-Detroiter Miss Cleveland. As the new week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field...
...with a temporary solution. The 1928 crop was a bumper, close to 900 million bushels. On March 1, there still remained 355,563,000 bushels undisposed of, bulging in elevators and farm bins. It was the largest surplus since 1919, To make matters worse, the 1929 crop promises to surpass 1928's to run well above the 900 million bushel mark...
Heralded as the greatest social function of the year, the Junior Prom looses its night of fun and festivity with dinner this evening. Other dances may surpass the Prom in gorgeousness occasionally-not often-but there is, was, and ever will be One Prom, and only one. It is apart from every other form of social life...
...Dead a hundred years, he remains in his peculiarly exhilarating and lovely way the greatest of them all. No composer of the first rank has failed to surpass him in this way or that, but he stands above all of them as a contriver of sheer beauty, as a maker of music in the purest sense. There is no more smell of the lamp in his work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example...