Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornell, stroking higher, pulled out a slight early lead, but was overtaken half-way down the course. With a half-mile to go, Harvard had a length margin, which it increased to a length and three-quarters by the finish...
Dobie, who loves coyotes, reports at length on their highly organized methods of hunting. When the game is antelope, they run in relays, tiring the quarry until it can be overtaken. On the trail of jack rabbits, they surround a group, driving them in an ever-narrowing circle, just as men do. Hunting ducks, a coyote once drove the feeding ducks across a lake, and when the ducks ventured close to the farther shore, they were pounced upon by a teammate hidden in the underbrush. Coyotes will hide in a herd of cattle to destroy their scent, or even take...
...night of his arrest, Chiang leaped from a rear window in his underwear. He scaled a ten-foot wall, stumbled into a deep moat and wrenched his back but climbed out and ran until he fell again, tripped by brambles in the darkness. He lost his false teeth. When overtaken, he once more insisted on being shot or sent back to Nanking...
After enjoying a comfortable 9-5 lead at the half, the Crimson polo team was overtaken and then defeated by Williams 12-11 Saturday night in New York City...
...victory reflects the steady improvement the freshmen have shown with every game. After an unimpressive early campaign of only one win in four starts, the team almost tripped Dartmouth last week, but was overtaken in the closing minutes. Saturday, for the first time this season, the freshmen played that way every minute of the game...