Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday, when the senior quarterback will most likely become the all-time total offense leader for Harvard. Going into the Yale contest, Kubacki had narrowed his year long pursuit of Dick Clasby's '54 career mark to just 46 yards. In addition, Kubacki needs two touchdown passes to surpass the career t.d. toss mark of 20 by Ric Zimmerman...
Senior tight end BOB McDERMOTT will try to net yet another record, since he needs just two catches to surpass Pete Varney '71 as Harvard's career leader in tight end receptions. With those two grabs McDermott, who already holds the record for most career years by a tight end, would also move to third place on Harvard's all-time reception list...
...turn away from even the intrinsic pleasure of his works, and at the same time so enchantingly open to interpreters that the PMLA index mushrooms yearly with new entries under his name. The flood of criticism is growing so rapidly that Richard Seaver estimates in his introduction it will surpass in bulk by the year 2000 the secondary work on any other writer in English besides Shakespeare...
BORDEAUX. On the verge of its greatest year ever, the area was drenched by late rains, which diluted the juice. Nonetheless, the grands crus will at worst match 1975, a great year; most St. Emilions will surpass it, as will the sweet white wines of Sauternes and Bársac. This year's Bordeaux are perfumed, full-bodied and richly colored. They should be drinkable in three or four years; further maturing will make them memorable. Most Bordeaux tripled and quadrupled in price in the early 1970s; then their cost was halved. Now they have recovered...
High Hopes. A peaceful and moderate settlement would be good for the economy. Automakers are looking forward to a banner year in 1977 with GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy last week predicting that car and truck sales will surpass the record 14.6 million of 1973. One reason: GM is unveiling a line of cars that will average 18.3 miles per gallon, or 10% more than the '76 models. As expected, GM also announced price increases, averaging about 6%, that will push the price tag for a typical car to about $6,000 (the average 1967 GM auto cost...