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Depending on speed rather than fancy stick work, the Ithacans outran a strong Baltimore University team 15 to 11 in an early spring victory and could give the varsity a trying time this afternoon as well...
...freshman Republican legislators who outran the Republican national ticket in 1960, Morse said the Democrats had successfully portrayed Republicans as people with "cash registers in their brains, and a ticker tape in their hearts...
...meet will be close. Farley and Jones, Brown's first two men, outran all Harvard runners but Mullin last year. And the Brown team's familiarity with their complicated home course will be a factor in their favor...
...newspapers' classified sections, property for sale in West Berlin outran buyers' advertisements 8 to 1. Many advertisers played openly on apprehension. Asked one: "Who would like to move his business to Hanover?" Others emphasized the attractions of living in West Germany ("near the French border" was one lure), Vienna, even Majorca. Despite West Berlin's lavish tax concessions to new industry, almost every Berlin-based company of note had put down a zweites Bein, or second leg, in safer territory...
...grandsons. This will exclude the contributions of Historian Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams), the most elegant of family stylists. But, given the indefatigable energy of the Adamses down to this day, the editors apparently concluded that they would have to stop somewhere, before new production outran the presses...