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Word: outsprinting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospects of victory revolve around the performance of two strokes. On the one hand Spike Chace, praised by Coach Bolles as being one of the best oarsmen in intercollegiate rowing, leads the cool Crimson boat which has thus far cruised around 30 and 36 to outsprint Rutgers, Princeton, and Syracuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crew, Nine in Crucial Tests | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...season which closed with the Tri Meet, he is potentially a winner for this event. Green like-wise has plenty of speed. The only man to show his heels to Green during the winter season was Linders of Cornell, who was forced to tie the Tri Meet record to outsprint the Harvard runner. Chet Litman will be added to the aggregate of sprint artists when the season opens, and he will be no small addition; though he was not an entrant for winter track, he last spring tied the world's record for the 60-yard dash and should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/28/1935 | See Source »

From the moment he took office President Roosevelt realized that he was in a relentless race against the sun on farm relief. His purpose was to outsprint nature to planting time. In his special farm message last month he warned Congress that "if we wait for another month or six weeks the effect on the prices of this year's crops will be wholly lost." Infected with his sporting spirit, the House passed his bill with blind speed. But the Senate sets itself above sun and seasons. Its refusal to compete with nature last week threatened to wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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