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...tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent 16 huge, cigar-shaped B-36s lumbering overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Think I'll Buy It | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Army dominated the race for the earth time in the ten championship runs that have been held to date. Cornell placed second, followed by Pennsylvania, Yale, Dartmonth, and Princeton. It was at this point that the Crimson contrived to outrun the Middies and force them late last place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harries Wind Up Fifth in New York | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...pouring rain in which there were as many fumbles as Carter makes pills, the "B" team was outrun and outkicked by Bill Jennings, Rivers back, who also seemed to intercept every throw the Yardlings tried. Crimson quarterback Bob Thompson did his best punting and running, but it wasn't enough...

Author: By Doug Fouquet, | Title: '52 Grid Team Opens Season With Andover | 10/9/1948 | See Source »

Scaled Up. Toledo Scale Co. came to the rescue of butchers whose prices have outrun the computing capacity of their scales. Toledo's new scale will have 39,000 new price computations (total: 129,000) for fractions of pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Oklahoma! turned five. It was possibly the last annual milestone the Pulitzer-cited musical would pass on Broadway; she was still "fresh as a daisy," one critic reported, but her long box-office stride was slackening-as well it might. Oklahoma! had already far outrun (2,134 performances) any other musical in Broadway history*; only a handful of plays (e.g., Life with Father, Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose) had lasted longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Birthday Girl | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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