Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Continental & Commercial Bank. He built the Selfridge stores in London. He put up the first Chicago skyscraper, for Gumman Wrigley, and the Straus skyscraper. During the War he was given an army of 70,000 men and, accountable only to President Wilson, built powder plants in West Virginia and ran them up to production of three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super...
...substitute Notre Dame quarterback, drove his team 73 yards down the field to score the first touchdown; a man named O'Boyle kicked the goal. These goals after touchdown often prove to be the hinges of football history. Southern California stormed and shunted ; Captain Cravath kicked, Morton Rear ran, and with four minutes to play the Pacific Trojans were five points ahead. Came a run, a plunge, a 20-yard forward pass, and eleven strong Irishmen got, by the width of a single point, their reward for traveling to Los Angeles. Score: Notre Dame, 13; Southern California...
...must prepare for a speech, I find that my mind is in a very curious state; strange emotional disturbances are taking place and strange mental aberrations as well. I found when I came along on the train today, trying to get myself ready for this speech that strange things ran through my mind. All that I knew was that I was to come between Mr. Duggan and Mr. McCracken. I found many strange figures in this connection, and I though of three of a kind and that did not seem to do at all, because both of them are administrators...
...football game) in the stands, the Navy met the Army in Chicago. The Navy goat had a room and bath at the Drake hotel- but where was the mule? Running, passing, kicking, Midshipmen Caldwell, Hamilton, Schuber scored twice before the second period was over. Out ran Lighthorse Harry Wilson, Army back, bored to a touchdown; the Navy dropped a punt, the Army scored again, and while guns went off, cornets brayed, airplanes skipped, tanks gamboled, men in blue and men in grey marched and countermarched and the Secretary of War met the Secretary of the Navy in midfield and shook...
...narrow canyon of Cottonwood Creek, a roaring mountain torrent heading in numerous lakes under Mt. Langley. The trail wound steeply up between pine trees and rocks for nine miles, when we emerged from the canyon onto a sloping plateau at about 10,000 feet elevation, where the stream ran gently through pine forests and meadows and was followed six miles further to our camp at one of the lakes under Mt. Langley, which is five miles along the crest south of Whitney...