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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theiss River. The Hungarian army expended three-fourths of the stock of ammunition allowed to it under existing treaties in a vain effort to shoot up this veritable iceberg, which caused the famed Tokay wine region to suffer a flood loss of ten billion crowns ($100,000). Angry Hungarians ran about shrieking that the Roumanian Government had aggravated the floods by opening certain sluice gates in violation of the Treaty of the Trianon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Floods | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Tiddde-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-dee- The spider courted the frisky flea; Tiddle-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-doo- The flea ran off with the bugaboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Children's Laureate | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...books that are read? There must be a deal of truth in tales of the ocean's monotony, for one "wiper's" list ran thus: Froude, "Life and Letters of Erasmus". Kipling's "Captains Courageous", Russell, "Select Essays", Hazlitt's "Table Talk", Shakespeare's Histories, with excerpts also from Tennyson and Coleridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKWARD HO! | 1/9/1926 | See Source »

...John P. ("Jerry") Rusk, was a few years ago Speaker of the legislature of Oregon. More recently he has dwelt in Wyoming. Recently he ran for the office of county prosecutor in Weston County, Wyo., against one James A. Greenwood. The seasoned Rusk was victorious at the polls. But later he presented a resolution to the county commissioners declaring that Greenwood had illegally retained a typewriter and law books belonging to the public office. Infuriated, Greenwood, overcome at the polls but not overcome in the flesh, engaged with Rusk. Before one of Greenwood's lusty blows, the skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Wyoming | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...Harvard Yard (campus), a yellow and white hound-dog, weight 35 pounds, watched some squirrels at play, stalked them, sprang, flattened a young squirrel under his paw. The pinioned creature twisted this way and that, emitting sharp, tiny screams of pain. Down from the trees ran the other squirrels. They surrounded the dog and curled their whiskered lips, making a snarling noise. Now it was the hound-dog's turn to cringe; it was his turn to squeal with agony as the squirrel under his paw twisted around, bit his forefoot-as the other squirrels sprang upon his flanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mr. Kidd | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

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