Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad (after Union Pacific and Santa Fe), and 1955 profits reached $56 million. To continue to earn such good profits, Russell believes that railroads must change with the times. Instead of carping about airlines, he wants to operate them. Says he: "If the train is going to be outrun, why shouldn't we go along? There simply have to be casualties in any form of progress...
Brown offensive tactics consisted mostly of kicking the ball deep and trying to outrun the Crimson to it. When the Bruins did win the race, Finkelstein had some tough moments, and one shot actually went into the nets but was disallowed because of an offside...
...being able to use Flippin hurt Princeton's attack immeasurably, for Pinch was just a very ordinary back. His passes were inaccurate, even to wide open receivers, and he did not have the speed to outrun the Crimson flanks. The ends, long a Crimson weakness, were much stronger Saturday, with Morrison particularly outstanding...
...Waltzing Matilda rose from the north section of the stands. Some 300 Australians were cheering the return, after a brief eight-month stay in the U.S., of the Davis Cup to Australia. With some 12,500 Americans, the. Aussie visitors watched Harry Hopman's brilliant youngsters outshoot and outrun U.S. Tennists Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert in three straight matches. There were few surprises, but some magnificent tennis...
...toward a mail box at the corner of Peachtree and Houston Streets when there came from nearby Pryor Street a roar . . . which sent a sensation of mingled fear and excitement coursing through my body . . . We saw a lame Negro bootblack from Herndon's barber shop pathetically trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after new prey. The body with...