Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric stones, and particularly...
...Rafael, Cal., Deputy Sheriffs Tracey and McGinnis spied a pair of lifeless legs dangling from the tonneau of a speeding car. They drew guns, pursued; overtook it. McGinnis covered the driver, Tracey flashed his badge...
...road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...
Rushing to a rally at East St. Louis last week, Governor Len Small of Illinois let his chauffeur "step on it." Near Girard, Ill., the Small car overtook a car occupied by two country men. Honking loudly, roaring on, the Small chauffeur whizzed alongside, cut in sharply, sideswiped the country men, ditched them, bruised them, cut them, embarrassed Governor Small...
...moved by more awkward contrivances, automobiles have existed for a long time. Yet few of the men who built the first automobiles are still alive; Maxwell, Haynes, the Dodge Brothers-these were among the most important and all of them are dead. Last week Death, in his quick chariot, overtook one more. This was James Ward Packard, famed maker of Packard cars...