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Word: outruns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refuel-evidently on their way to Montevideo. The 31,100-ton battleship Barham, and the French battleship Dunkergue-it and the Renown two of five Allied ships which can both outrun and outgun German pocket battleships-and the 10,000-ton cruiser Cumberland were rumored to be waiting just over the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best in New York City. In its first full-page newspaper ads fortnight ago, Pepsi-Cola announced it had outsold "any other Cola drink in bottles" by more than 50% in the metropolitan district, had outrun, in fact, all the "Cola" drinks, of which there are some 35 in New York alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT TRUSTS: Cola Coup | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...seven years in which he has consistently outrun other milers, Glenn Cunningham has run a mile under 4:10 at least eleven times, has once (on Dartmouth's board track, year ago) unofficially beaten the world's record of 4:06.4 by 2 seconds. This consistent excellence makes him, in most sportswriters' opinions, "world's greatest miler." Announced last week was a meeting between Cunningham and Britisher Sydney Wooderson (holder of the world's record) next June 17 in Princeton's Palmer Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family. Less stuffy folk than the Wallaces would be hard to find; they might say with Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...victory marked the opening of the 1942 home grid season, and when the whistle blew ending the game with the Freshmen ahead 14-12, hopes for future varsity elevens brightened considerably. The Yardlings had outfought, outrun, and outplayed their opponents in a decisive fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Gridmen Roll Over Worcester 14-12 For First Victory In Two Season As Vander Eb Smashes Across Both Tallies | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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