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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through Newton Hills, where Johnny Miles began passing Stenroos and dropping back, passing him and dropping back, nine times, until once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathon | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...Miller '27 showed a brand of speed in the spurts which should put him up with the leaders in the Stadium finals on May 29. He ran a 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat without any pressure. He then went out in the 220 trials and breezed away from the field in 22 2-5 seconds, but dropped out of the finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATTERS SMASHES MARK AGAINST TECH RUNNERS | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1926 | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...inaccessible fever-infected jungles Their pleasure was to raid, burn, slay, crucify, abduct. Their slave-hunts extended ip to Manila, their piracy for hundreds of miles. Spanish Captains-General, after three centuries of futile effort, had long since retired into a policy of bad-tempered neglect. The Moros ran wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: In Manila | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Chase has been after me ever since last September when I ran an article exposing the machine which he has built up here to keep the Puritans pure. He felt that his chance had come when the April number appeared with a story to which he took exception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FELIX" AND MENCKEN OUT FOR N. E. W. AND W. BLOOD | 4/6/1926 | See Source »

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