Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Feeling ran so high that blows impended on several occasions when the Turks and their Treaty were defended by Prof. Edward Meade Earle of Columbia, Dr. James J. Barton, Secretary of the Foreign Department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and the Rev. Albert W. Staub, American Director of Near East colleges...
Sarazen, named for the golfer, started ten times last season and won ten races. Never did he seem to be hard pushed, for he always ran pricking and wagging his ears. Therefore he is, with good reason, favorite at 5 to 1, for the Kentucky Derby...
...ran on an independent, anti-Socialist ticket against Nicholson, the Conservative, and Fenner Brockway, the Laborite. His campaign was a colorful whirlwind (TIME, March 24), described as "Churchill's circus." He aimed to bring out the large non-voting electorate to choose him in a rock-ribbed Conservative stronghold. He must split the Conservative vote to beat the Laborite whom he officially opposed, and he had the backing of so influential a Conservative as Lord Balfour...
...years ago the Manhattan firm of S. S. Ruskay & Co., self-styled stockbrokers, failed for about $5,000,000. The assets of the concern were found to be unimportant and the loss imposed upon the customer-victims of the concern ran into many millions...
...their shell struck a piece of ice, which punched a small hole amidships. The shell rapidly filled and before the crew could pull ashore, the water had nearly reached the gunwales. The men jumped into the water and abandoned the shell to Coach Stevens in his launch. Theoretically, they ran back to the boathouse, but it is rumored that nine men in dripping rowing togs arrived at Newell shortly after the accident in automobiles...