Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modesty is one of the virtues, Mr. Ralston has it over any other candidate who ever ran for the Presidency. There is a parlor game which consists in rating the qualities your friends possess. We might apply it to Presidential candidates. For modesty I should vote Ralston at 10 and Coolidge at 3. For ambition I should vote Coolidge at 10 and Ralston at 3. For honesty I should vote them both at 8, for I shouldn't give any one 10 in honesty. For character I should make them both high. For modernity I should give the edge...
...last May, 46 more were halted. On June 1, only 184 furnaces were left in operation, as against 230 a month before. Steel ingot production is running un der 50% - and perhaps not over 45% - of the capacity of the industry, with further decreases expected. In 1923 the industry ran on an average of 80%, and at 93% last March. The estimated steel ingot production in the U. S. last month was 2,628,261 tons, compared with 3,333,535 tons for April and 4,187,942 tons for March preceding...
...minutes over Canadian soil; then the Shenandoah encountered (without difficulty) a heavy fog drifting over Buffalo from Lake Erie. Over Canaseraga, N. Y., the dirigible ran into a thunderstorm, and great flashes of lightning lit up the huge and gleaming bulk at frequent intervals. The dirigible dodged the thunderstorm with ease, though she had to leave her course over the Erie Railway and to retrace her route to the North for a while...
Dartmouth suffered an unfortunate break two weeks ago when Austin, speedy right fielder, ran into the stands while in pursuit of a foul fly, fracturing a bone in his left forearm. He is out for the season. He led off the Dartmouth batting order and had hit for 280 in 18 games while fielding his position without a miscue...
Amid the ruins of Pompeii, the Royal University of Naples celebrated its 700th anniversary by a picturesque pageant. Ancient rites of Parthenope (the Greek Naples) were staged in the twilight, including the "lampaded-romiae," wherein beautiful young women in classic drapery ran about handing symbolically from one generation to another the flaming torch of Life and Science...