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Word: outruns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much to be feared as any weapon in the arsenal, says Dr. Bush, is the submarine, now able to stay submerged for long periods "with only a small end of a pipe [the schnorkel] sticking out like a swimmer breathing through a straw," able to outrun pursuers and overtake fast convoys, and carrying long-range homing torpedoes which could be fired from a point beyond the earshot of sonar. The Nazis had been a few months too late with their undersea engine of destruction. But there it is now, says Bush, a heritage of German ingenuity: "one of our greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can Civilization Survive? | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Cardinals, including Manager Eddie Dyer, would rather have Musial; others might outrun him on a straightaway but not around the bases. Slaughter has slowed down this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...church, I am confident, any designs on the reins of the Rev. Barnes's semi-Communistic religion of the future by using the strategy of the rabbits: "If you can't outrun 'em, stay here and outnumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent 16 huge, cigar-shaped B-36s lumbering overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Think I'll Buy It | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Army dominated the race for the earth time in the ten championship runs that have been held to date. Cornell placed second, followed by Pennsylvania, Yale, Dartmonth, and Princeton. It was at this point that the Crimson contrived to outrun the Middies and force them late last place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harries Wind Up Fifth in New York | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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