Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings of the Grenfell Mission loomed on the shore of Battle Harbor. After a brief stop there, the pilgrims pushed off on their journey's last leg for Wiscasset, Me., bringing with them no news...
...upkeep of the school-barn to run along without return? The Bureau of Education found out: "The erroneous attitude of parents in considering it less serious for the younger than for the older children to miss school. . . . Trivial excuses such as 'went to town,' 'ran an errand,' 'got up late,' 'had shoes repaired...
...scrimmage lasting somewhat less than an hour, the University football team, playing with the first-string line and a substitute back-field, ran up 20 points against Coach Knox's black team...
...King is a banker and a citizen of Quincy. He gained prominence two years ago when he ran a contest for the most cutting name for a breaker of the prohibition law. "Scofflaw" was the winning word...
...steeple of the Park Avenue Baptist Church a man was capering in frenzied activity, engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...