Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because she had a miserable executive officer, who, instead of jumping into the pilot house when Worden was wounded, ran away with his impregnable vessel...
Hedwig and Wanda. The Marshal's arrival at Suleiopek precipitated further revelations. To eager news gatherers he confided: "Hedwig's greatest joy is to run barefoot through the forest. Not long ago she ran through some mud and showed me proudly her dirty legs...
...from the heights. Last week one such reported a body offshore. It was a big dead fish. A second reported another body. It was a dead seal. Her congregation last week abandoned hope of her living. Many have known her since she, a little Canadian Baptist girl of 17, ran away from home with the evangelistic troupe of Robert Semple.* That was 18 years ago. She became ordained in the Apostolic Church and evangelized on her own account so inspiredly that the June issue of the Bridal Call Foursquare Gospel, her personal magazine, ranks her with those other great evangelists...
...track meet at Cambridge, six records* fell. A flying youth named Russell from Cornell dashed 100 yd. in 9 7/10 sec., equaling the record set four years ago and disproving a statement by an old-time coach to the effect that anyone who ran the hundred in less; than 10 sec. was a liar. That feat is a commonplace today. The same youth bolted uncannily down tho track for the 220 yd. dash, came in like lightning, passed his field in 21 sec., and won by 2 1/2 yd., shattering another record...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...