Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expenses last year, however, ran to $57,642,474. Income from investments could provide only 24 per cent of this, and student tuition fees accounted for merely 22 per cent, according to the report. The largest single portion of income came from gifts and bequests...
...News-Post was "substantially correct." Gist: a bouncy, 17-year-old high school girl named Susan Johnson had arrayed herself in a midshipman's uniform, invaded the academy, stood formation, attended mess with 3,600 midshipmen, had gaily run down dormitory corridors popping into rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment, and three midshipman officers who knew of the plot were broken to the ranks (the academy first said the demotions were merely for "administrative reasons"). Second upshot: Dr. Marius Johnson grounded his high-sailing...
...since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had the stock market taken such a blow. After setting new highs each, week for three weeks in a row, the market started down at the week's opening. While the ticker ran late for more than two hours of the 5½ hours of trading, 1,040 of the 1,287 issues traded suffered losses ranging from 5 to 42 points. It was the second largest number of issues traded in one day in stock exchange history (largest: 1,290 issues...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy as the curly-headed machine politician (James Michael Curley, that is) who ran Boston in blarney and shamrock...
...Crimson went ahead for the last time minutes later when Mike Donohue sank a 30-foot push shot with five and one-half minutes to play. It was then that the Lord Jeffs ran off their string of ten which iced the contest...