Word: surpasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farinacci. Jurists who opined that nothing could surpass in lefthandedness the defense just quoted, blinked wide-eyed as the chief defense barrister, Deputy Farinacci, the personal friend of Mussolini and Secretary General to the Fascist party, boldly cast aside all pretense that this was a murder trial and not a mere political whitewashing. He shouted: "Why was Matteotti kidnaped? For personal reasons or for private vengeance? No. Matteotti was kidnaped because he gravely offended Italy's collective sentiment of patriotism, because he undermined our national solidarity, because he was outspoken in his praise of the enemy of the State...
Artist Sims paints what he sees with glittering fluency. A. Lys Baldry once declared that "few present-day painters equal him in acuteness of observation, fewer-still surpass him in mechanical skill. Although Mr. Sims' work somewhat reflects the rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is because he, like his critic, is a Britisher, and this quality is an immemorial part of the British intellect-an intellect never so ponderous as when it is airy and never so supple as when it is hard with scorn...
...share on the $150,753,522 of proposed common stock. In a similar way, the earnings of the constituent roads for 1923 would amount to $14.50 on each proposed common share in the new merger. Earnings for the current year on the same basis are expected to equal or surpass those...
...tournament, this year, promises to surpass all former intercollegiate tourneys, both by reason of the large attendance expected and the excellent facilities. Never before have the teams had so long a preparation, for the date is later than in former years by a month, and never have they enjoyed better turf than that at the Westchester Biltmore Club...
...below the total output of 1,340,734 cars and trucks attained during the same months of 1924. Indications point to a new record production for May, 1925, however, so that it is prophesied along Automobile Row, Manhattan, that the figures for the first five months of 1925 will surpass those for any previous year during the same months...