Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sapers estimated that about 1,300 men have signed up, including uncounted students from the Commuters Center. If only half of these are able to give, the College will still surpass its 541-pint record of last spring, the highest total over given by a single college...
Phillips Brooks House will begin a three-day blood drive next Monday. The aim will be to surpass last March's record of 541 pints, which is the most ever gives at a single college...
...pikers compared to their more accomplished and eminently successful mentors, who have had and still have a vast continent in which to base their operations . .. Filipinos . . . are inefficient all right-even in their grafting . . . With more time and greater chances they will yet show they can equal or even surpass the stink familiar and now taken for granted in Washington...
...University, it is more than that. At the Graduate Cdenter, specialists from six schools are "intermingling and learning from each other." In that respect the graduate facilities in Cambridge surpass the Medical and Business School plants in Boston, which are more elaborate but somewhat isolated...
...bottom of the garden, nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked...