Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese immigration-law evaders were being smuggled over the Mexican border in airplanes. Hastening to the Eagle airport, landing field near Los Angeles, they hid in the weeds and bushes, waiting. Toward dawn three airplanes arrived. Before the first to land had come to a full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches of green oats, proving, officials maintain, that the aviators had landed...
...University lacrosse twelve in a one sided game easily ran up a big score against a weak Brown team. The final score stood at 11-0 and even this large margin hardly represents the difference between the two teams...
Along dirt roads from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...
MOTHER AND SON-Remain Holland (translated by Van Wyck Brooks)- Henry Holt ($2.50). "They came there, they set fire to everything. . . . We ran away. Whenever we stopped, we could hear their feet galloping behind us. They were coming like a steam roller, the whole sky was black with them. Like a hail storm coming up. . . . We ran and ran." To this, the way people scampered away from the terror of the German invasion, Author Rolland, pacifist, finds a parallel in the way people let themselves be driven by the hail storm of their emotions...
Last week a ship set out from England, bearing to the U. S. that suave young cosmopolite, born Dik-ran Kuyumjian beside the Bulgarian Danube some 35 years ago, whose activities on the banks of the Thames as Michael Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma...