Word: outlasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Hopkins for a long time. I could draw them standing on my head. I'd like to draw Dewey with his teeth and little black mustache, instead of Roosevelt and his cigaret. If I have to work till I'm 90; I'd like to outlast that fellow and draw some new faces...
...early innings, each of which produced three runs, enabled Fort Devens to outlast the Crimson nine at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, 8 to 4, in a chilly contest played before at least 20 spectators...
...citizen a temperature. The waste he sees reaches its peak in Army & Navy, but it is pyramided by the sluggish mental attitude of U.S. industry, "too long used to cheap materials and expensive labor, still addicted to the extravagance that made Ford use alloy steel radiator grilles designed to outlast the rest of his V-8 bodies by several lifetimes." Sample horrors en his list...
...introduced Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree last February. Two and a half months later, it led in sheet-music sales, radio performances and on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade. At New York University, music students voted it one of the two popular songs most likely to outlast the war (the other: Buckle Down, Buck Private). This week it was sweeping the Army camps. Its catchy chorus, which sounds like a swing version of Long, Long Ago, enabled soldiers to vocalize a theme that worries most of them more than the war. The song...
...accs will always beat one and it took both Mort Waldstein and Warren Berg to outpitch and outlast Ted Harrison in the strength-sapping heat of New Haven Saturday, copping the first game of the traditional Commencement series with Yale by a 5 to 3 count in 14 innings...