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...Churchill bespoke, a reminder of the common heritage of both nations. On simpler esthetic grounds, it stands amidst Missouri's flat plains as a monument of excellence that the uninstructed can admire, a standard that traditionalists can repair to, and a challenge that the creative can strive to surpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Monument to an Occasion | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...surpass them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1969 | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...taken there and, like Little Audrey, I laughed and laughed. I have seen the wonders of the Far East and marveled at the Pyramids. I have champagned at the Folies and, in the days of our Empire, flown in a Vice-Regal plane. But nothing, simply nothing will ever surpass the sheer deliciousness of my first evening down on the Block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

With Dartmouth sweeping three of the top four places in the ski-jumping competition to surpass Middlebury in the overall team standing, Harvard's best jumping effort of the season--the Crimson finished second behind the Big Green--got lost in the flurry...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert, | Title: Skiers Take Third Place In Williams Slope Carnival | 2/18/1969 | See Source »

...proud black man, who was a ghetto orphan at six, but now surpass at least 97% of whites in education and income. What I resent is that when you publish a "Black and White Balance Sheet" [Jan. 24], you do not also explain that according to the 1960 census, a black man with four years of college can expect to earn less in a lifetime than a white who just finishes high school. What does this tell us about working hard, being clean, getting an education? Isn't this proof of how racist the system really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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