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Word: outwears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHEVIES may have nylon tires as standard equipment. In secret test, G.M. has put nylon tires on 40,000 new Chevies this year, later will check owners to see how they perform. If they outwear the present rayon tires, Chevy plans switch to nylon, which would be heavy blow to rayon makers, who sell 36% of total output to tire industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 21, 1958 | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...socks woven by Burlington Mills of nylon and Vicara, a new wool-like, mothproof synthetic, made from field corn. Vicara is reported to outwear wool, does not shrink, and sells for around 83? a lb. v. wool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Milium & Maleic | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...social and moral order of the Main Line lingers, as a good upper will outwear its sole. Many of the old families have bravely kept up the appearance of a world long after its death. They are the members of a social body that proudly awaits its Proust. He may never come, but the Main Line will at least have had its Biddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in a Dying World | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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