Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York District. He served two terms (four years) and it has been said that he did not appear in Congress more than 25 times. In 1904 he wanted the Democratic Presidential nomination and was reported to have backed his pretentions heavily with cash, but failed. In 1905 he ran for Mayor of New York City on an anti-Tammany ticket and lost by a small margin. In 1906 he took the Tammany nomination for Governor and then broke with Tammany. The Demicratic ticket was elected? all but himself. In 1907 he backed his campaign manager for sheriff...
Another protagonist of the much belabored Freshman tells how only last year a very green Freshman on his first visit to Cambridge arrived by subway. Just as he arrived above ground he descried a street car marked "Harvard" and ran through the fast-closing doors as the car gathered momentum, only to be set down two blocks later in the car-barn...
...father could join the fight to free Texas from Mexico. He did, and after it was over he and his wife were murdered by Indians, and Rebecca Jane, eight years old, and her young brother were carried away by the savages. Finally they knocked her on the head and ran him through the body and left them to die. But rescuers came...
...perhaps the most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...
...Keymen sailed up the river to West Point, where they went ashore and looked about them indulgently. Up and back they had conversation. Their talk ran upon the excellent idea it was not to minimize the importance of their Council meetings by holding them more frequently than once in three years; upon the sound reasoning that had led them to decide to push ahead with the fraternity's million-dollar endowment fund, of which at least $100,000 must be in hand by December, 1926, for the erection of a founders' memorial building at the College of William and Mary...