Word: overtook
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Dunster's football team, which overtook Winthrop in the last week of the season, suffered the Crimson's most crushing defeat, losing to Jonathan Edwards College in the championship game...
...Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers when illness overtook him this year (TIME, March...
...varsity's win climaxed a successful afternoon for the Crimson as Harvard crews captured six of the seven races. The lone defeat came when an unexpectedly strong Orange J.V. boat overtook the Crimson J.V. in the last quarter mile and went on to win by a half length...
...Brian, who plays Earp, and Jim Arness, star of CBS's highly rated Gunsmoke, have been named as Emmy candidates for "best actor in a continuing series" by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-the kind of distinction that hard-riding Tom Mix and Buck Jones never overtook. In movies the adult Western goes back at least as far as John Ford's Stagecoach. On the air it owes its start to the radio version of Gunsmoke, which began in 1952. Some adult...
...match between Hammond and Bill Veck, M.I.T. varsity swimmer, provided the evening's most unusual performance. The Harvard man swam the breast stroke, While Veck paced him with freestyle. The engineer led by a small margin for the first fifty yards, but Hammond overtook him and won in the final feet. vard did not swim competitively. Dave Hawkins '56, former Crimson varsity swimmer and a 1952 Australian Olympic team member, now a graduate student, illustrated the evolution of the breast stroke in a series of demonstrations...