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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After all, Abie's Irish Rose only ran five years on Broadway. Surely the Walker Follies, which has no plot, cannot hope to equal that record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hobson's Choice | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...with Dietrich who, provocative, was a little stronger, a little older, and who peeped exaggeratedly when Wolf and Suzanne made their little love that left him out. ... All in a world of their own, none of these budding ones saw "how the clouds passed over them and the hour ran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Germany | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Germany | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Second only to U. S. Steel Corp. Produces one-fifth of Steel Corp. output, twice the volume of its nearest competitor. Ran to 100.6% of rated capacity second quarter. Earnings statement was accompanied by a common dividend increase from $4 to $6.) Net income, first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Fiedler Sr. retired, took his family to Europe. Since he did not wish Arthur to follow music, the boy ran errands for a Berlin publisher. After five weeks, his head full of harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston's Fiedler | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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