Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious that the U. S. combination had passed a word around in the locker-room: "Kill off Lowe." First Cutcheon set a parching pace. Lowe seemed tired. Haggerty replaced Cutcheon, looking over his shoulder at the dark-haired, the Arab-skinned Lowe, three yards behind. So they ran until 150 yards from the end. Then Lowe, as if he had strapped the wind to his ankles, ran past the red Haggerty, won the race...
Last week, they added another historic paper to their collection. They purchased The Steubenville Herald-Star. The Herald part of it was started as a weekly in 1806, and eight years later was bought by James Wilson, grandfather of Woodrow Wilson. He ran it for 24 years, and his son Robert Wilson ran it for seven years more. In 1896, it was amalgamated with the Evening Star (founded 1889). Now the Wilson paper and the Harding paper are both the property of "two unknown young...
...year which ended June 30, 1924, the Post Office ran a deficit of $12,000,000. The annual deficit had been decreasing since the War. When Congress passed the pay and rate increase measure last spring, there was a prospect of a $3,000,000 surplus this June. Because of the new law (pay was made retroactive to Jan. 1 and increased rates did not begin until April), the Post Office showed a deficit at the end of the year (June 30). The deficit, not yet calculated, is estimated...
Ramifications of the Scopes trial ran all the way from a proposal by residents of Dayton that a Fundamentalist college be founded there with William Jennings Bryan as president, to expressions of astonishment in the Muslam newspapers of Constantinople at "such antiquated ideas...
English newspapers made much of the reports from Dayton, generally referring to Mr. Bryan as having "taken personal charge of God" Even the staid Paris Temps ran a few editorials : '"It is the hot season and vacation time, and the interest of the newspapers languishes. It is necessary to find something to talk about...