Word: outran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Federal Reserve Board announced that in September outstanding consumer credit rose to a record high of $48.4 billion. New loans are well ahead of repayments, but this is usual during a period of credit expansion, just as repayments outran new loans during the recession. Of the loan total, $37.5 billion was installment credit, an increase of $485 million over August. While this was the smallest monthly increase since last March, installment credit this year is expected to rise about $6 billion v. a $5.4 billion increase...
Mark Mullin, who outran the University of Massachusetts team last week to spark an impressive Harvard victory, is expected to turn in good time, as are Ralph Perry and Jack Benjamin. Benjamin has a slight cold that may affect his running, but still remains a threat to the Indians. Sophomore Bob Knapp and captain Eddie Martin have overcome early-season injuries and add significantly to Crimson point potential...
...fisherman brothers, built up a gold-smuggling empire so vast that prices on the Karachi bullion exchange fluctuated whenever the Bhattis brought in a shipment. Commanding a fleet of twelve ships that rendezvoused with contraband-carrying vessels in the Arabian Sea, and using new Chevrolets that easily outran customs officials' Jeeps on Pakistan's unpaved roads, the first cousins became rich men about town. Paunchy Kassim acquired a winning stable of 17 race horses and a taste for fading continental blondes. He also acquired friends in high places...
...went down together with vaudeville, pursued by child-welfare officers and cops hunting for the bales of towels Mother filched from hotels. To escape, Baby June eloped when she was 13 with one of the chorus boys, aged 18, outran Mama in a breathless chase to the honeymoon train. Big Sister Gypsy was booked by Mama in a Kansas City burlesque house, soon struck a jackpot at Minsky's in Manhattan and put up Mama in velvety splendor in a flat above the honky-tonks of 42nd Street...
They opened the second half, however, on a dazzling 65-yard punt return by wing Charlie Rowe. He raced to midfield, then cut to the sidelines and outran the whole Dartmouth team to the goal line and three points...