Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meaningless tradition and that three bankers caused the European war-and yet these are the days of compulsory elementary education and public libraries-a man who sailed for Europe with a following of cranks and unbalanced school teachers to bring about an international settlement whose importance and difficulty will surpass the problems that faced the Congress of Vienna-that Henry Ford received thirty-two votes on the first ballot for Republican nominee is a national joke (or disgrace) that should not pass without comment. Bismarck and Moltke must roll over in their graves, and Joffre and Sir Edward Gray turn...
...issue on the whole, however, is very satisfactory indeed and sets a standard of excellence in photographs which will be difficult to surpass...
...Book Board has started out with every endeavor to surpass last year's Red Book. Competitions for the various departments began about the first of March and brought out a total of 121 men:--21 for the art department, 15 for the photograph department, 45 for the copy and registration department, and 40 for the business department. Only 102 responded to the call for the 1918 board a year...
Plans for a great winter carnival, which will even surpass that of last year, have been announced by the Dartmouth Outing Club for the three days, February 10, 11 and 12. The open events are expected to attract a larger number of contestants from other colleges than last winter, although no definite acceptances of the Outing Club's invitations have been given out as yet. From the social point of view the club officers expect to profit by the greatly increased interest in the winter function by perfecting their arrangements for the various events...
...being committed against the Armenians in Turkey. Nothing less than the extermination of a people numbering more than 1,200,000 is being attempted. For many years the Armenians have suffered injustice and cruelty at the hands of the Turks. The atrocities of the present year far surpass anything that has every before been perpetrated. They have been made victims of every form of cruelty and outrage. Great multitudes have been driven from their homes, helpless and without food, to die on the race to the desert...