Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he regards as far more American and alive than what is medieval and European. In particular he attacked the new Sterling Library, which Yale regards as her best piece of architecture. The essay says, "Few works can equal it as a monument of lifelessness and decadence none can surpass it in extravagance and falsity...
Inches here surpass fathoms of elevation. If the Lowell House dais had been a four inch depression instead, where dignitaries in dinner coats are served about a symbolic fountain of Florida water of five or ten watts even, the affront to democracy would have been extreme, and beyond measure regrettable...
...years the Chinese mint has been abuilding. Except for the Chinese inscriptions over the door it might be mistaken for the Treasury building at Washington. With a capacity of 40,000 coins per hour, it is said to surpass in speed all other mints whatsoever. Thus a rush order for 3,000,000 silver dollars to bribe a Chinese general could be turned out in 75 hours flat...
...regions conditions were indeed acute, Mr. Ochs said: "I am an optimist and I am glad I am one. ... I think the day is not far distant when there will be little or no excuse for unemployment, when the reward for industry, inventive genius and political wisdom will far surpass anything heretofore known in the history of the human race. We are on the threshold of a new world and the utilization of natural forces that were unthought of and undreamed of a few years ago. A new epoch of man, a conquest of nature, is just beginning...
...Illinois and Missouri. Distribution will be carried out by a new Missouri-Kansas company, Panhandle Eastern Co., with a potential daily capacity of 250,000,000 cubic feet of gas. But Missouri-Kansas will need many a new gas field, and many a new customer before it can surpass the 1929 record of the biggest U. S. natural gas corporation- Columbia Gas & Electric. Last year Columbia sold 144.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas to 1,000,000 customers...