Word: outrun
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...with offices, radios, kitchen, but without armament. In it General Andrews acts as air admiral, flying above his fighters, directing them by radio. With its ceiling of 23,000 ft., the flagship will be out of range of antiaircraft guns, while its 200 m.p.h. speed will permit it to outrun most existing fighters. Its significance lies in accenting a prime military theory: fighting enemy aircraft with aircraft, not with ground guns...
...prosecutor for forgetting certain details, leaned out of the witness chair and yelled: "And you wouldn't remember so good either if you had been as scared as I was that night with Pappy a-yellin' and a-cussin' and Edith a-tryin' to outrun him!" Edith, argued her lawyers, had exercised no more than her "God-given right of self-defense." But that did not impress the mountain jury, which, after less than an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict which sent Edith on her way to prison for 25 years...
...idea of the strength of the Toledo Rockets may be gained from its to point victory over Wayne University which had previously administered 33 straight defeats to Toledo. In addition to Wayne, they have outrun Adrian and Dennison Colleges...
...Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, affixed in witness of a farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than...
...Infirmary to let things slip along in the same groove, not only from mere inertia, but because they are too close to the organization itself and interested more in running it than in picking it to pieces. The tendency, only too apparent in the past, to let antiquated equipment outrun its usefulness, is illustrative of this attitude...