Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead in the Republican primaries and won, but in so doing he called Mr. Volstead an Atheist. Mr. Volstead went to court. His daughter Laura testified that he was "a good Christian man, a good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from the Republican ticket. He ran as an independent and lost to Volstead by only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale won, by 14,000 votes...
...youth he spent much time with gamblers. A boasted adventurer, he enlisted in the U. S. Army during the War. After his discharge he again became an adventurer. At various times he: ran a New York matrimonial bureau; collected "thousands of dollars" on a Ford car which he repeatedly raffled off but never delivered; was arrested after "illegal actions" during a political campaign; jumped bail and went to Georgia where the store robbery occurred...
College for Roman Catholic priests, shouted down the news. Student priests ran to rescue Calvin Petty. Bleriot Cup. Louis Bleriot, early flyer, now head of Bleriot-Aeronautique at Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts...
...Putnam '30 who has been piloting one of the elevens ran his team through five plays against a combination with W. T. Wetmore '30 in the quarterback role after which Wetmore's team had an opportunity to take the bail through a few plays. Putnam then ran through a long signal drill while Wetmore's team and one piloted by R. F. Gleason '32 had a fifteen minute scrimmage punctuated by frequent interruptions...
Coach Horween sent his football charges through a few minutes of light scrimmage in yesterday afternoon's practice session on Soldiers Field. The four teams which compose the first University squad lined up against each other and ran through about a half dozen plays with no casualties or bruises resulting...