Word: outstrips
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...School for Scandal", for as sheer entertainment, all hobbledehoy about art and the higher drama aside, it is probably the best play now showing in Boston. If the theatregoing public would only view it with the same open-mindedness given the latest New York success, it would probably outstrip four out of five of its competitors in patronage as well as in intrinsic merit...
...averred that the building of gunbobts was to establish, and presumably to defend, a Chino-American economic alliance. They charged that the boats in question would give the U. S. a preponderant naval strength in China and that the purpose is to "back up American mercantile efforts to outstrip Japanese and British interests...
...School sextet. The schoolboys have an excellent record, having defeated Maiden High 3 to 0 and Belmont High by a 4 to 1 score. The only defeat chalked up against them this year was at the hands of the unusually powerful Brookline High School team, which was able to outstrip them by 2 to 1 in an overtime contest. The Arlington stars are Crosby at center and Captain Hammond...
...first tilt came last Monday. Senator Watson, who recently tried to outstrip Dos Passos in denouncing army discipline, now turned his attention to Henry Ford--conferring upon the latter the title of "blackmailer" and a few other none too choice epithets. Senator Williams came to the rescue and charged the Senator from Georgia with inciting men "to rebel against the authority of the United States government" in war time. And then the song was out--until Senator Robinson succeeded in having the belligerents removed from the floor...
...edge, for although they lack team-work and have no great individual brilliance, they have undoubtedly made it hot for the University sextet in each session thus far, and it has taken the utmost skill on the part of the latter to squeeze in, every afternoon, and finally outstrip them...