Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge that science has outrun itself and that it has brought more woe and pain and disorder than happiness, comfort, and order is almost exclusively made by vain people whose failure to understand the simplest techniques has produced an inferiority and a defense...
...result: 6-to-1. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace let drop some quiet advice to county AAA agents in the farm areas; everyone understood perfectly. But when the votes were in, Tom Dewey had outrun the President about 4-to-3 throughout rural Illinois...
...week it was the Biscuit and none other who attracted a record crowd to Santa Anita's magnificent track. Could Seabiscuit win the Hundred Grand in his third try? Could he, after a year on the farm,* beat twelve of the country's fastest thoroughbreds? He had outrun a classy field the previous week in a tune-up race. But this time the Biscuit was assigned top weight of 130 lbs., six lbs. more than he carried the week before and 16 to 20 lbs. more than most of his fleet footed rivals...
...when the National A. A. U. championships were held in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, U. S. track fans were convinced at long last that Cunningham's crown had been knocked off, that Chuck Fenske was wearing it. For the sixth successive time this season, Fenske had outrun the country's top milers (including Cunningham), had twice equaled Cunningham's indoor record of 4:07.4, had snatched the national indoor championship (with a 4:08.8 mile...
...just a comic-strip nobody from an obscure planet called Krypton. Now, as almost every kid in the U. S. (and many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper...