Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters Home is a selection of 254 such letters from 42 servicemen. Not one of its 314 pages is dull; a few of them surpass, in their clarity, emotional intensity, and power of observation, the professional reporting...
...Captain A.G. Malan is credited with 32, as was the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane. Canadian Flight Lieut. George ("Screwball") Beurling shot down 31 before he was grounded, and Wing Commander Standford Tuck had 29 when he was forced to bail out over Germany. U.S. aces had a chance to surpass any of these records, but Russian Major Alexander Pokryshkin's record of 59 was apparently safe for a long time...
...Germany must be regarded as our chief offensive effort at the present time. Until the middle of 1943 we [the British] had by far the largest force in action. As a result of enormous transportations across the Atlantic . . . the U.S. bomber force in this island now begins to surpass our own and will soon be substantially greater still, I rejoice...
...Gide, "arouses my curiosity more. . . ." Gide listed among his favorite U.S. authors: 1) Novelist Ernest Hemingway -"I have none of his love for bullfighting, and yet there is no American author I would rather meet." 2) Novelist John Steinbeck-"some of the stories in ... The Long Valley . . . equal or surpass the best tales of Chekhov." 3) Crimester Dashiell Hammett-"I regard his Red Harvest as a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism and horror." 4) Novelist William Faulkner - "perhaps the most important" U.S. writer, "essentially, powerfully and in the full sense of the word, a Protestant...
...That the Russian system and ideology surpass the American. > That the Papacy and all Catholics are at heart advocates of Naziism and Fascism and therefore anti-American...