Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book shop Phillips' was unique-he ran it as a combination debating and browsers' rendezvous. There was no obligation to buy anything; in fact, when the boss got started on one of his frequent philosophical arguments, commercial activity virtually ceased. The store soon became a favorite gathering place for a number of eminent faculty men: Kittredge, Hocking, Irving Babbitt, and W. Y. Elliott among others. They used to drop in to talk with Phillips about books, philosophy, in fact about almost anything. The book merchant especially enjoyed popping one of a set of philosophical problems on his visitors and drawing...
Working under Phillips was something of an experience. According to Ellsworth Young, the present owner, "the store ran more on inspiration than system." For instance, Phillips had a fabulous memory for where he had put his books, and consequently felt no need for keeping them in any particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print...
Three Crimson relay teams staged a two-event winter debat yesterday in an informal Briggs Cage meet against Brown and Rhode Island State, but it was the visitors who ran off with the honors...
...last seven minutes, the team ran wild. DiBlasio swiped the puck from a BU defenseman, skated through another one, and blasted a shot past the goalie from six feet...
Davis Bros.' hustling President John F. O'Hara, 36, hopes to cut into the Friday fish market, which he helps to supply, simply because this year he ran into a shortage of mackerel, normally 70% of the fish he cans. Fishermen were pulling in plenty of tuna along the East Coast, but that was not much help: it was the dark, oilier tuna (horse mackerel to fishermen), and could not compete with the West Coast's white tuna...