Word: outran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson cross-country runners couldn't keep up with the moccasin clad Dartmouth warriors at Hanover yesterday. Streaking through the woods, the Indians out-classed Jaakko Mikkola's squad and ran off with a 151/2-471/2 win. The Dartmouth Papooses outran the Freshmen in the junior meet...
Center-forward Hans Estin scored the last tally when he took a pass from Louria and outran both fullbacks to count 30 seconds before the final whistle...
...from California was only 17, and almost unknown. But last week in Wembley Stadium, husky 6 ft. 2 in. Bob Mathias, in two days' grueling competition, outran, outthrew, and outjumped 34 competitors, to win the Olympic Games decathlon. In victory, at an age when most youngsters are still gangling and ill-coordinated, he had proved his right to be classed with such all-round athletes as Carlisle's Jim Thorpe and West Point's Glenn Davis...
Tallyho! In Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Mrs. Earl Hall outran her husband's hounds, killed the fox barehanded...
...girl child, who might have been her dinner, foiled her with bread. Fleeing from Baba-Yaga, this miraculous child strewed the forest with crumbs, each of which sprouted a tree, and the trees grew so tall and thick and fast in Baba-Yaga's path that the child outran the old witch's seven-league mortar to safety...