Word: surpasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowly broadened the gap. A year and a half ago, 53% of decided voters were for him. In his latest poll, taken just before Ike announced his availability, Gallup found 66% of decided voters for Ike, 34% for Adlai. Concluded Gallup: "In an election today Eisenhower would likely surpass the greatest landslide vote in recent U.S. political history, racked up by Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...always with him. A Jew without the Torah is obsolete. The Torah is not the wisdom but the destiny of Israel; not our literature but our essence." ¶ "A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought. He is asked to surpass his needs, to do more than he understands in order to under stand more than he does. In carrying out the word of the Torah he is ushered into the presence of spiritual meaning. Through the ecstasy of deeds he learns to be certain of the hereness of God. Right living...
...sustain the line as well as he should. He is still effective in declamatory passages, but the many lyric moments are sung roughly. Tebaldi tends to be shrill as Leonora, although parts of her performance are controlled and lovely. The opera itself is uneven, so the singers must sometimes surpass their material. They have only partial success: contralto Giulia Simionato is fine, but basso Cesare Siepi is a disappointment. The best performance comes from baritone Bastianini, making his debut on records. His voice is rich and big, and handled very sympathetically. He contributes the only consistent luster to an otherwise...
...Tree had its greatest glory. President Josiah Quincy severely punished many students for this disturbance--he expelled all but three from the Sophomore Class. This fact alone may explain the subsequent lack of any serious outburst against the administration. More probably, however, students realized they could never hope to surpass the epic struggle of those two months, and so just gave up trying...
Whereas the varsity completely out-skated the B.U. sextet, Boston College can match the Crimson squad almost man for man on the forward line and even surpass it at defense in view of the recent Crimson shifts moving Dan Ullyot and Pete Summers up as wings...