Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...
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...
Since the waves outrun the wind, they provide a handy method of spotting storms that are still far out at sea. This is not important in the North Atlantic, whose weather is reported by ships and airplanes almost from minute to minute. But between South Africa and South America, there are few ships, and only one small weather station, on the island of Tristan da Cunha. Since most storms in the area strike from the west, a wave recorder on the African coast might give a day or two of warning before a storm arrives. Dr. Deacon also believes that...
Captain Huna Rosenfeld and John Cogan were figured as solid fourth and fifth men, completing the Varsity team, with Bill "Atom" Baker and Joe Leeming, last year's Freshman captain, in reserve to displace. Jaakko considered Herby Pratt a dark horse who might outrun everybody...