Word: outrun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outcome of the clash would, therefore, seem to depend entirely on the final event on the schedule, the mile relay. The Crimson quartet's fast time of three minutes 28 4-5 seconds in the Millrose Games in New York a short while ago should favor them to outrun the Indian baton-passers, but Coach Hillman has an array of fleet middle distance runners who are capable of throwing the point total in their favor...
John Jacob Raskob has been both bull and bear. His most bearish moment was on the eve of the bankers' convention (TIME, Oct. 15), when he observed that "security prices have far outrun demonstrated values." His most bullish moment was on the eve of his sailing for Europe last March, when he predicted new records for General Motors, observing that the stock should sell at 15 times its earnings, or $225 a share...
...opinion that security prices have so far outrun demonstrated values, earning power and dividend returns that a material readjustment is necessary before they will again be attractive to the prudent investor...
...pledge allegiance to the flag, and to the country for which it stands, one and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," can any one-hundred per-cent citizen fail to grasp the deep meaning, the patriotic tenderness, the passion and spirit of his own native land? Do we outrun ourselves in thus eulogizing the United States of America? No. The United States of America is a great and glorious institution and is undoubtedly a success...
Next day, after Cabinet meeting, the President was more versed in coal complexities. The industry, it seemed to him, was undergoing a period of adjustment. Supply had outrun demand. Small operators, or operators with large overhead, were pinched by competition and could buy coal more cheaply than mine it. These, apparently, were reasons why the operators had abrogated the Jacksonville minimum wage agreement of 1924. Secretary of Labor Davis had asserted in October, at the A. F. of L. convention in Los Angeles, that the coal industry is overmanned by 300,000 men (TIME...