Word: outdrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soil, missionary activities (his California newspaper pals began to call him St. Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London's largest hall six nights running...
...Kentucky tourist attraction, Big Red outdrew Mammoth Cave. Two million people visited Faraway Farm just to see him. He was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lexington. On his birthdays, he was given elaborate cakes with carrot candles. Stablehands reportedly did a brisk business selling hairs out of his tail to superstitious horse-players. For Man o' War was the greatest of all U.S. race horses...
...United Artists experimented with nine different opening dates for one picture, bolstered five with radio ads. They outdrew the other four by an average...
...your Aug. 14, 1939, issue, "Background for War," you outdrew Pearson, not by days, not by months, but by years...
...Ringleader Sutphin may never realize his dream of a hockey World Series between the champions of the American and National Leagues, the up-&-coming American circuit puts on a hell-for-leather hockey show attracts almost as many spectators as the National League. Last year Cleveland's Barons outdrew the New York Rangers. Nearly as large a following had the little Hershey Bears, owned and operated by a trust fund set up by chocolate-rich Milton S. Hershey for his chocolate-bar paradise at Hershey...