Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind his ambition. One could not receive congressmen or even mayors, bought and paid for, in a flat. D. C. Stephenson built a formidable house at Irvington. Decorators from Indianapolis did what they could for him; he sent to New York for clothes and a few antiques. His taste ran to the oriental. Quite often now, behind the big yellow windows of his ballroom, saxophones giggled and clucked all night and limousines drove away in the early morning with the blinds pulled down. Odd callers were always waiting in his library, men of dignity who had suddenly become nervous...
Under a fleet of storm clouds like battleships driving in from the Pacific, a tough team from St. Mary's baited the Golden Bears of California. Boyd ("Cowboy") Smith, half-sized halfback, with caliper legs and a blue jersey, ran for 80 yards to make one touchdown, for 45 to make another, and for the first time since 1917 a St. Mary's eleven went home rejoicing from Berkeley. Score: St. Mary's, 26; California...
...loneliest section of his range, to salt his cows; once he had seen a bear here, and looking at the place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces. Ranger Irons began to .climb. The bear climbed after him. Long claws reached out, divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost...
...opening of the class football season on Solider's Field yesterday saw a powerful Junior eleven crush a game but outclassed Senior team by a score of 22 to 0. Shortly after the opening kick-off. Heard, 1928 quarterback, ran back a punt 30 yards to, the Senior 20-yard mark, and half a dozen slashes through the line took the ball across the line, Barbee tallying on the last plunge. In the second and fourth quarters, sustained offenses yielded two touchdowns, and another drive bore fruit in the form of a field goal from the 20-yard streak...
...Second football team ran rough-shod over the U. S. Coast Guard Academy eleven of New London, Conn., yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field, scoring six touch-downs and kicking four of the subsequent tries for goal to send the Coast Guard outfit home on the short end of a 40 to 0 score...