Word: one-up
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After finishing behind Dartmouth two weeks ago at the Brown Spring Invitational, the Crimson hoped to one-up the Big Green by placing higher in its most prestigious tournament of the year. In a women’s golf league dominated by Yale, Princeton and Brown, Harvard and Dartmouth have developed their own rivalry. It has become so contested, in fact, that a trophy has been created and is given to the team that finishes higher in each week’s tournament...
...make our time here negative than the actual conditions we are complaining about. The reason this overwhelming negative attitude about Harvard persists is that most of us perceive that we have nowhere to channel our legitimate gripes. We then feed off each others’ grievances, trying to one-up each other, until we are left with a boiling pot of self pity. Because we hear these exaggerated problems over and over without resolution, we come to accept them as truths, making our perception of Harvard much worse than reality. Our complaints become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...Bush billboards to Budweiser ads to the cover of TIME. Then Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, 23, sampled the quote and added an annoyingly catchy dance track. "I did it for the sheer inside-joke value," he says. "Everyone was trying to one-up each other." Next came a two-minute music video, and soon "All your base!" was being yelled out of dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home page of Turkish journalist Mahir, All Your Base spread from...
Rather than remaining in the audience with the other final club members and dates, Novak, who was attending the show "Fangs for the Memories" with other members of the Harvard Lampoon, the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, decided to one-up the "usual heckling" by dressing in drag and joining the show...
...there is any fear of competition, it’s on the part of the older sibling. Art Koski-Karell laments that Dan is surpassing him as a rower and as a student. Another junior, whose brother will be a freshman next year, jokes that he might one-up her and interfere with the communication between her and her parents. Carmichael says simply of his sister, “She’s much smarter than I am.” Despite their semi-sarcastic apprehensions, they of course remain excited to be joined by a family member...