Word: outsmarts
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...imagine his team stretching the Tiger winning streak to 31 straight (since mid-season 1949). But in the way stood a high hurdle: ponderous, powerful Penn. With All-American Dick Kazmaier and ten of last year's other regulars gone, Princeton's young team would have to outsmart and outspeed Coach George Hunger's huskies to win. In Princeton's Palmer Stadium last week, Charlie's youngsters tried. With less than five minutes left in the second quarter, Penn had bucked and passed its way into a 13-0 lead over the slow-starting Tigers...
Line & Sinker. In Madison, Wis., when Herbert C. Fischer tried to outsmart a persistent burglar by rigging up a camera trap to catch him in the act, the burglar, on his next visit, ignored the bait ($2, a ring and a watch), made off with the $150 camera...
...fiction and in movies, if not always in fact, a good reporter can outsmart a dozen cops. Last week Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 160,271) made fiction into fact. To the Call's city desk came word that a 17-year-old girl had been found beaten to death in a clump of bushes in San Francisco's Mission Park. The staff hopped on the story and Reporter Bill Walsh soon turned up the names of the girl's boy friends...
...siding beside Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium when the cops clapped two bystanders in jail because one said to the other: "If I had a gun, I could have bumped him off." (Later, they were released when they explained they were just saying how easy it would be to outsmart the Secret Service.) While the President relaxed in his steam-heated box during the game (see SPORT), a special patrol of Air Force F-51s kept watch overhead, once zipped past a hovering light plane to warn it away from the big bowl...
John L. Lewis was naturally not amused. To his cronies he has often spoken of the way he would outsmart Russian diplomats, if he had the chance. Big John cleared his throat and got off a letter to State Senator Bishop...