Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, John T. Davis, is president of the Davis Colliery Co. and Chairman of the Board of the Davis Trust Co., both of Elkins, W. Va. My grandfather, the late Henry Gassaway Davis, ran with Parker on the 1904 Presidential ticket. Before that he was Democratic Senator from! West Virginia. His life, by Pepper, would be instructive reading for Subscriber
...ran a sign set up in the middle of the busiest street in Nelson, New Zealand, last week, while Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York, was sick abed in her hotel recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Meanwhile a pageant of 50,000 loyal New Zealanders passed in gala review before the Duke of York, second son of the King-Emperor, now en route to Australia (TIME...
...lottery. In presenting its case, the college pointed out is absolute lack of money after the erection of Stoughton Hall and repairs made on Massachusetts Hall. With the granting of their plea, the University authorities set about their task of raising $30,000. The cost of running the lottery ran up as high as $24,500, but it netted $29,000, just 1,000 dollars short of the original goal. The hall is named after Sir Matthew Holworthy, who gave more money to Harvard University during the 17th century than any other...
There not long before, hordes of wiry, brown-skinned Filipinos clambered aboard six locomotives lying idle on the tracks, ran them defiantly out of sight and hearing...
...filmy pajamas, in scantily cut bathing-suits, in practical running shorts and in ordinary clothes, 25,000 men and women ran scrambling forward at this signal to stake out claims in the Grasfontein diamond field (TIME, Feb. 7) that promises to yield $5,000,000 in hard, white, transparent, keep-sake-rocks...