Word: surpasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Favorite Husband (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS), a happy-family newcomer, last week boasted a Trendex rating of 25-compared to only 21.5 for its top competitor, the gaudy Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. The fact that Husband was able to equal, and then surpass, the rating of one of the best and oldest of the expensive variety shows may have played an important part in the decision to break up the team of Caesar and Coca next season (TIME, March...
...cargo traffic will surpass passenger volume by 1960, predicted Ralph Damon, president of Trans World Airlines. For T.W.A. alone, international cargo loadings have increased nearly 1,000% in five years (from 776,964 ton-miles to 8,000,000), now represent 30% of the airline's total cargo business...
...York City. As yours is God's own country, you are supposed to be free from any mental disequilibrium. To keep the mind of His favorite children on an even keel . . . you are provided with the largest number of psychiatrists. Unfortunately, we have only one psychiatrist who can surpass all of yours...
...criminals won Fabian's grudging respect. For physical agility and courage, he feels few can surpass Robert Delaney, the first of the "cat burglars," who rifled jewelry from the bedrooms of Park Lane mansions while their owners were downstairs at dinner. Two men died trying to imitate him. One impaled himself on a spiked railing, and the other fell 40 feet with $32,000 in jewels in his pocket and grimly crawled two miles before dying. Having brought off six jewelry hauls worth some $120,000, Delaney was bagged in his own flat with most of the swag...
...outmoded provision in the tax laws: if they earn over $600 in a year, they cannot be claimed as "dependents" on their parents' income tax returns. This means, in effect, that there is a two or three hundred dollar penalty if students and others supported by their families, surpass $600 in wages...