Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the resulting explosion touched off not only the most efficient mass slaughter in written history, but a profound if remote jolt to the student of social science. No one needed further proof that the technical genius of man had far outrun the knowledge of his own perversity. The science of the twentieth century laboratory had left the science of the social thinker in the stone age. The committee membership cannot help but recognize this fact...
...played softball on the corner lot with the gang, occasionally earned pocket money by sneaking onto neighboring golf courses to retrieve lost balls. He could outrun the gang-and the cops-every time. But a stern talk from Ma Robinson put him out of business. She was, and is, a fervent Methodist who can be volubly graphic on the subject of hell. (A few weeks ago, when the Dodgers were not doing so well, Jackie wrote to his ma: "Quit praying just for me alone, Ma, and pray for the whole team...
...second-quarter reports last week, the estimates seemed reasonable. Increases of 100% to 300% above the strike-harassed 1946 period were not uncommon. Of 342 companies reporting at week's end, 237 showed bigger earnings, only 67 showed decreases. Oil-profiting from an unprecedented demand sufficient to outrun supply for two years-set the pace. Typical six months' earnings: Sun Oil Co., $11,360,170-up from $4,360,212; Phillips Petroleum Co., $15,459,699 v. $8,002,179; and Shell Union Oil Corp...
...about its price policies: regardless of the reasons for the dangerous price situation, the responsibility for correcting it was "squarely up to businessmen. Other economic groups must cooperate. But it is to the risk-takers of our system that the public logically looks for risk-taking." Consumer prices have outrun consumer purchasing power and "price increases, with some significant exceptions, also ran ahead of costs and thus brought a sharp expansion of profits in 1946 and through the first quarter of 1947. . . . Abnormally high earnings such as these cannot last. Many prices today are badly out of line and must...
...began clicking in the field events and surged past Brown. But Rhode Island's cinder entries had already sewed up the meet. Running like frightened gazelles, they had out-scored the Varsity 38 to 2. Only Wes Flint, who grabbed two easy wins in the hurdles, was able to outrun the visitors...