Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting back home. It looks bad I tell you and I want to see my uniform is alright." "Well give me a ring before you do go to say 'Goodbye.' " "Alright, Kate-Goodbye." Sank back in my bed and that dull thud, thud in the head overtook me, the thud of wondering, imagining and trying not to wonder and imagine-the thud that has gone on continuously since that morning to this. Captain R. C. got his recall telegram and left, too. The next day was our village regatta on the river finishing with a burst of lovely...
...about, made a fetish of his endurance record. Eclipsed by his colorful, temperamental teammate Babe Ruth, plodding Lou Gehrig felt that his drawing power was his dependability rather than his brilliance. When, at spring training camp this year, the Iron Horse suddenly realized that he was getting rusty, panic overtook him. He brooded, became tense at bat. Sportswriters, viewing his feeble performance, wrote his batting obituary-for all the world to read - before the season started...
...meant what he said. When a British food freighter, the Stangate, was intercepted by a Franco warship and escorted toward a Rebel port, the British destroyer Intrepid overtook the convoy and forced the freighter's release. The Erica Reed, U. S. relief ship to Loyalist Spain, moved out of Valencia unharmed...
Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...
...week J. P. Morgan humped himself from his desk at the far end of the big room in which all Morgan partners sit, walked through the lobby to a small reception room and greeted reporters with a "Good day, Gentlemen." At that point Mr. Morgan's usual embarrassment overtook him, he muttered something about his firm's being "short-handed," then passed around flimsy sheets bearing the curt announcement...