Word: outran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of losing first and second place honors to Winthrop, a strong Dudley cross country team outran competition from the other Houses by a large margin in the annual meet held yesterday afternoon. The Commuters captured the title by a high standing in the lower brackets...
Then suddenly Al Winick intercepted one of Jack Eberle's passes early in the second half, and outran the whole Kirkland team to score standing up. Tommy Eliot's place kick fell short of the uprights, leaving the score...
Their other basic raw material is coke. With all by-product coke ovens working at capacity, many an oldfashioned, high-cost, beehive oven (once homes for the unemployed) was fired last week. Meanwhile the demand for coking coal outran the capacity of the steelmakers' "captive" mines, sent them into the commercial market. Result: the ailing soft-coal industry is headed toward 10,000,000 tons a week (its 1939 average: 7,800,000 tons a week), and many a factory manager began to think it might be a good idea to stack some extra coal in the yard just...
From East and West came the cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front...