Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left knee, motor-deafness that lasted an hour...
...owners of the Frostilla line of beauty lotions, which Ritchie once sold in Canada. In 1931, again in partnership with the Shoemakers, he bought from Scott & Bowne for "several million dollars" their famed old Scott's Emulsion. Thus he was in full stride of expansion when Death overtook him. His executives will carry on the business, but no longer will a squeaky-voiced little man perch on their desks by the hour, no longer will he buttonhole them in thickly carpeted corridors to tell them his newest story...
Death, which often fluttered close to the wings of Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, last of the Army's "Three Musketeers." overtook him last week at Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio. Week before at the same field it had flung to earth another crack Army pilot, Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf. Both men were performing their routine work of testing experimental planes. Captain Elmendorf crashed with his spinning pursuit ship. Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke...
...Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails of the fence, lightly chatting with demure sisters and belles from Boston as they watched the combatants work out a mutual destiny. But the desecration that is progress overtook the spot, and the Memorial was erected "in honor of those sons of Harvard who served in defence of the Union, more especially to commemorate the sacrifice of those who had laid down their lives in that cause...
...credit for the victory. Next day the Cubs beat the Braves 4 to 3 in 15 innings. Pitcher Bush replaced Pitcher Bob Smith in the 15th, received credit for another victory. In a National League pennant race even closer than last year's, the Brooklyn Dodgers last week overtook the Pittsburgh Pirates in second place, whittled Chicago's first place lead to three games...