Word: suberb
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...last B.A.A. marathon proved a lot. It proved that in the future a man may run as fast as he likes, according to how much fuel he wants to burn. Take Johny Kelly, for example, an ordinary plodder, but filled with a burning desire to win this inter-suberb camel-trek. He calls up Harvard University, Uni. 7600, and asks for the Fatigue Research Laboratory. He asks Professor Henderson if he can become one of "Henderson's Men" and is accepted by the great blood-chemists. Henderson gives him the dope for winning marathons, a dozen little glucose sugar pills...
Harvard's fielding was very loose. Nichol's pitching, however, while fearfully wild, was very effective; and Winslow, who succeeded him pitched a suberb game, barring several bases on balls. Allen, considering the pitching he had to stop, did finely; and Baker played a good game at short-stop...