Word: outstrip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schoolboys often outstrip routine work in the Freshmen year. There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power is underestimated and the process of education before settlement into a gainful occupation and marriage has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
...easy to say that the "St. Louis Kid" is good Cagney; and good Cagney, as an unfortunately large number of people know, may be depended upon to include turmoil among the gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation of James Cagney. We particularly admired...
Such is the rigid structure of capitalism, and when production at any cost is our aim, it and the private ownership upon which it is built work very well. But when technical advances make production outstrip the capacity to buy and it is useless to contend that they have not, capitalism cannot provide for the needs of this new economic society. Plan it, regulate it in any direction but semi-public utilities, and you destroy its internal harmony, you set loose productive forces whose sole control comes in collapse. The end is chaos in any case; in the United States...
...backfield Francis Lane looms up as the outstanding back from the Class of 1936. He has been playing halfback most of the time, but has filled Dean's position at fullback during the latter's disability lately. At the present time it looks as if he would outstrip his classmate Fred Moseley, who hasn't shone quite as brilliantly recently as he did in the first week of practice. These two Sophomores may provide the answer to the problem that faced Casey at the beginning of the season...
...outdone, Oklahoma City's bustling Chamber of Commerce and the University of Oklahoma banded together to present Faust, with seats at 25?. Music lovers boasted that attendance would far outstrip Tulsa's, visioned opera as an annual event in "a Greek amphitheatre which will become the centre of cultural activity for the Southwest...