Word: outran
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...will not swell the rout/ Of lads that wore their honours out,/ Runners whom renown outran/ And the name died before the man." Al most as powerful as the drama of athletes aging is that of the golden boy destroyed in his youth...
Anne Sullivan outran Sue Adams of Brown by 17:41 to 18:20 for an easy first place victory. Behind the fleet-footed freshman came Johanna Forman. Sarah Linsley and Katherine Taylor in fourth through sixth places for Radcliffe. Behind Harvard with 26 points was Princeton with 63 points, Yale with 85 and Brown, Dartmouth and Barnard. Cornell did not compete in the league championship...
While dribbling the ball downfield, hunched over her stick, Velie outran everyone on the field, faked out the Eli goalie, and drove the ball into the net, producing a 2-0 lead an astonished group of onlookers...
...unquestioned star of the meet was Northeastern sophomore Bruce Bickford, who outran Hillary Tuwei of Richmond University in the stretch of the 3000 meter steeplechase to set a meet record of 8:34.76. The old record was 8:41.0, set by Miguel Roche of Rutgers...
...stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves who outran the owners' dogs would usually stay in the vicinity and risk recapture to see their families again...