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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Syracuse at about 8:30 in the evening, Warren Stevens ran three times past rows of floodlights that gave the field a blueish tinge to make touchdowns against Hobart. Used successfully in the west for some time, the floodlights proved that many potential gloaters who like to play golf Saturday afternoons will go to night football games. Syracuse 77, Hobart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Changing courts, Kozeluh rubbed his face with a towel and took a bit of lemon. As he walked back to the baseline after a point he often shook his head-the only gesture left in his gay repertory. Richards ran the score to 5-3, to advantage in the match game, lost the point and then stepping back for a slam, got the ball on the wood of his racket and netted it. Kozeluh won the game and Richards, on his next serve, double-faulted twice for the first time that day-too tired to make any resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along the side of the ring, holding onto the top rope, and feeling his mouth with his glove. Something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christ's Bulldog | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...spite of the 48 to 0 victory, which they ran up against Bates, the performance of the Harvard football forces in the Stadium Saturday was unimpressive. The Crimson scored easily, but its ragged play prevented it from piling up an even greater total against the crippled Maine eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN COASTS TO UNIMPRESSIVE WIN | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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