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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resistlessly impelled by latent causes of unrest, a revolution burst at Warsaw last week, ran its triumphant course. Once more was recalled the dictum of that outspoken Austrian, General Pflanzer: "Ha! The Poles? Sir, they are one-third magpies, one-third rabbits, one-third LIONS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Government Upset | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...Wine ran in Norway. Bells pealed in Rome. Headlines screamed across the broad U. S. Bright bunting shone forth in grim Alaska, where searchlights had pierced the skies during the three-hour nights. Then, slowly, mankind settled back to review and evaluate what had seemed at the moment its most spectacular feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...This is the second time that Colonel Bradley has placed his horses first and second in the Derby. No other owner has ever done this twice. The only other man who ran a first and second was Commander J . K . L . Ross, who did it in 1919 with Sir Barton and Billy Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Louisville | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...Inst. of Tech. 2, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Maine and Bowdoin, 1 each When the first I. C. A. A. A. A. meet was held in Saratoga in 1876 the athletes turned in meritorious performances considering the lack of background they possessed. There is little to prove whether these trail-blazers ran up-hill or down-hill; whether the records were established with or without the aid of the wind, and in those days the circles for the shot-putters and hammer throwers were not so well defined as the steel rings which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWDOIN AND TECH TRACK COACHES WRITE ON HALF CENTURY OF I.C.4A. COMPETITION | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

...role of a vivacious young thing who plays around the stage with all kinds of nods, becks, and wreathed smiles; and when Miss Standing is called upon to frolic, her admirers must either stay away or keep looking steadfastly elsewhere. Mr. Mowbray and Miss Dudgeon and Miss Ediss also ran: the sogginess of the track was too much for everybody...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/20/1926 | See Source »

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