Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between the pent-house and the State House. If there has been no more disorder and violence at this race-track than what Boston newspapers have reported, then the odds against the legality of the Governor's action are longer odds than these wagered on any horse that ever ran at Narragansett Park...
Third man in the Holl Cross meet was Harvard's Pen Tuttle '40. Pen shows prospects of being a star distant runner. A member of last year's crack Freshman track team Pen astonished all when he, never having run the distance before, ran away with the two mile run in the Yale meet last...
Columbia and Army scored three touchdowns apiece. In such a situation to miss one kick for extra point may mean defeat. Columbia missed three. Only satisfaction for Columbia was possession of the country's Player-of-the-Week, Sid Luckman, who completed 18 passes, two for touchdowns, ran back a kickoff for a third. Score...
...hating Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") had erected, in time for the dedication ceremonies, a huge sign reading: CHICAGO TRIBUNE UNDOMINATED. Morning of Mr. Roosevelt's arrival the New Deal-loving, Tribune-baiting Chicago Daily Times bannered across its front page: TRIBUNE PAINTS UP FOR PRESIDENT, ran a three-col. picture of the Tribune's warehouse display...
Headstrong always, at 15 he ran away, was returned home to finish high school. On graduation in 1917 he was off again, this time to Kansas City, where as a cub on the Star he nosed the beaten track of hospital, morgue and jail. War was in all minds, however, and a few months later he joined an ambulance unit bound for the Italian front. There he transferred to the Italian infantry; soon after, in a trench-mortar explosion, got a wound that retired him from active service. Of his War experiences, Author Hemingway speaks modestly, says usually, "I spent...