Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestantism has a mouthpiece it is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, founded 24 years ago to give its constituent worshippers voice on moral (not theological) questions. With altering lay attitudes on social questions the Federal Council has tried to keep pace. Whether it has outrun the minds of its constituency will be apparent this week, when some 400 clergymen and laymen representing 26 denominations gather in Indianapolis for the Sixth Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council. Ready for the delegates' perusal are voluminous reports by many a committee, on such innocuous matters as goodwill, race...
...18th of this month that the Japanese troops on the South Manchuria Railway, falsely alleging the destruction of a bridge by some Chinese, instantly started in many directions to disarm the Chinese garrisons in South Manchuria. The railway zone being soon outrun, the Japanese soldiers speedily occupied Mukden, the capital, and practically all other strategic points. Hundreds of Chinese were killed. Altogether there are now more than 14,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria. Additional forces had landed in Tsingtao, farther south in the province of Shantung, and gunboats appeared in the Liaotung Gulf. Since the news agency in Manchuria...
Died-Thomas W. ("Chicago'') O'Brien, 68, racetrack plunger; of cancer; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. One of the few turf gamblers to win consistently, his biggest bet was $100,000 that Man o' War would outrun Sir Barton (which he did) in a match race in 1920 at odds of i to 20. Once a bricklayer, and with no other business than betting, he died a millionaire...
...record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium was fast and hard the first breezy day, when the junior champion-ships-for athletes who have never won a championship-were contested. The next afternoon rain made dark spots on the cinders. There were 10,000 spectators...
Like oldtime court jesters, newspaper colyumists are privileged-nay, obliged- to play horse with the serious news of the day. But just as the jester was in danger of having his head lopped off if his boldness should outrun his wit, so must the colyumist watch carefully lest he shock the Average Reader's sensibilities. Readers of Colyumist Harry Irving Phillips (''The Sun Dial") in the New York Sun one day last week wondered whether he had gone...