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...times in three years. He was never scratched from a race in which he had been entered, ran on all sorts of tracks : holding, muddy, sloppy, slow, heavy and lightning-fast. Last summer, when he broke Seabiscuit's money-winning record ($437,730), Whirlaway seemed sound enough to surpass the Biscuit's 89 racing starts as well. But during the winter he developed a leg ailment that kept him out of training for several months...
...Baker and Jack Lynch were the only players who were able to surpass the ability of the graduate courtmen...
Father Ledochowski's successors must go far to surpass him. In the 27 years of his rule the number of Jesuits rose from 17,000 to 27,000, passed for the first time the high mark before the Jesuit suppression of 1773. Wiry, keen-eyed Father Ledochowski started missions among the Eastern Orthodox, fought attacks on his order in Spain, Germany, Mexico and elsewhere. Despite threats from Germany and Italy, a Jesuit on his staff regularly disclosed Nazi atrocities in Europe over the Vatican radio...
...Front]? We have more than the number who saved Moscow last autumn, more perhaps than the number whom Timoshenko commands. Have we the machines? We have Matildas and Valentines, and Timoshenko fights with them. We have two-pounders to equal the German 37-mm. We have six-pounders to surpass their 50-mm. We have new tanks designed for the close country of Flanders and France. We have mastery...
Determined that their English A training shall not go for naught, undergraduates have been straining their mentalities in search of original expressions of love and gratitude for mother. That their efforts are not in vain is shown by the telegraph office manager's statement that Harvard me far surpass the average telegram-writer in ingenuity...