Word: bested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first 50 years of the century could be told in the story and world outlook of one man, and he ends a period-J. Pierpont Morgan. The man who will most influence the next 50 years is . . . Albert Einstein. Beyond that . . . there had best be another Christ, or at least a more far-reaching Gandhi...
...sidewalk, the green smudge of a treetop peering over the adjoining wall, the sick and sagging figure of the old man himself, and even the murky, unreal light and haphazard composition all helped put across the mood Stuempfig was after. Like The Lifeboat and others of his best works, The Old Man was a familiar scene glimpsed through a mist of tenderness and gloom...
Suggested one Bolivian, recalling that Cristina had once been voted the world's best-dressed woman: "Why not have all the well-dressed Congressmen vote for Cristina, and the shabby ones vote for Antenor...
...grace of one touchdown, Notre Dame had won the national championship and finished its fourth undefeated season in a row. But the Irish had been in a football game and they knew it. Said Coach Frank Leahy: "The best team we've met all season . . . Kyle Rote is the most underrated back in America...
While hearing this piece of optimism, the A.S.M.E. also honored, as the year's best technical paper by an undergraduate, a piece of rocket-pessimism by George D. Lewis of the University of Connecticut. Engineer Lewis, who now works for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., argued mathematically that a single-stage, chemically fueled rocket cannot escape from the earth's gravitation...