Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that night a dog ran over it with its muddy feet. [Here the President began to grin.] When she saw what was done she sat down and didn't cry a bit. All she said was, 'Ain't it queer that he didn't miss nothin?' That was true greatness, but it is only people who have done washing that know...
...hours later in London's Paddington station, the newlyweds ran a gantlet of the press. Their taxi was followed into Hyde Park by cabs full of newshawks, shouting questions. Finally the Secretary of the Interior stopped his cab, got out, stormed: "Are these newspaper men's manners...
...teachers passed out the fateful report cards. Presently, in breathless twos and threes, the first arrivals raced up to Charles Balaban's soda fountain, exhibited their A's. Mr. Balaban amiably began to set them up. Soon they came by tens, then twenties. Mr. Balaban ran out of straws, glasses, soda, ice cream. By nightfall no good little boys and girls had claimed their prizes. Druggist Balaban prudently withdrew his offer. Meanwhile School Superintendent Leon Nelson Neulen sniffed: "The important thing is how long they will maintain their good behavior record...
...ran for Fulton in eighth...
When the citizens of Knoxville. Tenn., tired of the city manager form of government, City Manager Walter Mynatt ran for mayor. He had a simple platform: Bring TVA to Knoxville, and was elected. Since then he has been preoccupied with two things besides running the city: higgling with National Power & Light Co. over a reasonable price for its Knoxville properties, and trying to persuade Knoxville's citizens to return to the city manager form of government...