Word: surpassing
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Neither McNiff nor New York seriously hopes to surpass the Library of Congress, which just passed the 39-million-volume mark...
Banning the bomb has become an outdoor sport that threatens to surpass bird watching in Britain. On Good Friday last year, 20,000 demonstrators gathered at Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston, carrying knapsacks and pushing prams; they thoroughly snarled Easter-weekend traffic as they made their annual trek 54 miles east to London, winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde...
...have sufficiently large boosters to protect us militarily," said President Kennedy at his press conference last week, "but for the long, heavy explorations into space, the Soviet Union has been ahead, and it is going to be a major task to surpass them." Echoed Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who appeared before the House space committee: "You can't buy back four years." The lag, he said, is a matter of "some concern," but the U.S. will now just have to "sweat...
...German army has taken its place as the pivot of Western defense in Europe. With half a million French troops tied down in Algeria, the Germans are already the strongest European force on the Continent. In two or three years time, the West German Bundeswehr will match if not surpass in might all the other NATO armies in Europe combined, including the powerful U.S. Seventh Army...
John North led the Crimson rifilemen with 278 points, not enough to surpass M.I.T.'s leading individual score of 287. The Crimson team average of 273 was not too far behind North's total, but the Engineers' 284 average proved the deciding factor...