Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When The Gazette of Billings, Mont., ran short of space, last week, it dumped overboard its editorial page. It announced that because of "tight space" it would eliminate editorials...
...into the station. There Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg (Minnesotans), Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, with aids and concomitants including 15 Secret Service men, 12 newspaper men and several photographers boarded the train.* It was hot when they started, but about 4:30, the train ran into a shower. Once in the mountains, the temperature was less and less offensive. In the diner, Mr. and Airs. Coolidge ate alone, with Secretary Kellogg and Senator Lenroot across the aisle. Mr. Coolidge had a two-inch broiled steak, a cup of jellied consomme, toasted raisin bread...
...dash. James Cusack of Chicago stepped cannily along behind a pack of runners for almost a mile, but when the distance became precisely a mile, James Cusack was in front. Shimek, a son of Marquette (Milwaukee), with pits under his eyes and his teeth straining out of his face, ran two miles in heat like the glare from a furnace door and won in the time it took the three impersonal chronometres to count 9 min. 32 61/100 sec. Huge, hairy Herbert Schwarze from Wisconsin twirled a 16-lb. shot around his head as if it had been a handball...
...slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike, on a single strut, then, with a yelp, fell face forward into the tar. A dozen men ran to her. With a jerky, united effort they dragged her to the sidewalk...
...team from the Chevy Chase Country Club in Washington failed to provide any stronger opposition than had been the team's due so far. At Baltimore, however, the University players ran into stiff competition and in the singles Whitbeck and Briggs were the sole survivors. In the doubles the luck was a little better and both Whitbeck and Cummings and Briggs and Perkins emerged victorious over the Country Club players...