Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...censorship is too well known to need elucidation. There are, of course, on the news stands many periodicals for the suppression of which more or less reasonable argument might be advanced; but in the case of the suppression of the Lampoon, surely the zeal of our protectors has outrun itself...
There was missing, to be sure, the usual quota of scenic and obscenic effects, but that was not an unmitigated loss, for it meant that no semi-operatic tenor heaved his chest in extolling them. In other respects the show would outrun the average revue many weeks, for the entire chorus was unique in intricacy and activity. The skits were funnier than the average, and provoked more laughs, and although they did not nearly realize all their possibilities--notably the sketch in the bedroom. Such acting as there was in the course of the evening lacked subtlety, which suited...
...most industries, our productive facilities still outrun our normal demand, We have apparently entered a cycle of small industrial profits and intense industrial competition. Manufacturers are now wondering whether the first three months of 1925 null witness a repetition of the preceding two years or whether a more moderate industrial program will prevent overproduction next spring...
...this seventh President-he was none other than Dr. Robert Ernest Vinson, erst of Texas. President Emeritus Charles F. Thwing saluted him; and Dr. Vinson replied: ". . . We already have more facts than we have assimilated. Our knowledge has already outrun our moral and spiritual development. Our chief duty now is to bring the ethical and spiritual character of the Nation up to the point where its intellectual development will be in safe hands...
...increased 30% in ten years, and a heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds of tea-an eighth as much as is consumed by a British family. We can afford to buy tea-the problem...