Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the night the transport Henderson of the Black Fleet ran the fire of the land batteries to the entrance of the canal and was "sunk," partly blocking the channel...
...friend of Thomas Jefferson. Pierre came to America and began manufacturing gunpowder in Delaware during the French Revolution. T. Coleman was born in Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners' union (Knights of Labor...
...went to a telephone and called up a friend in Manhattan who owned an unused newspaper plant in Philadelphia. He bought the plant by telephone, he moved it to Baltimore and set it tip in an unused building. He obtained an old locomotive from the Pennsylvania Railroad and ran it alongside the plant, using its steam to furnish power for his presses. Ten days after the fire, The Baltimore News appeared once more, calling on the citizens of Baltimore to build a greater and more beautiful city. In 1907 Mr. Grasty sold the News to Frank A. Munsey, who retained...
Unexpected disaster and overwhelming success was the portion of University and Freshman track athletes on Saturday. In the afternoon the 1927 squad ran wild against Boston English and Boston Latin High Schools, and amassed a total of 60 points to their opponents' 11. Among the medal-winners in the Knights of Columbus games in the evening, however, were registered only Jefferson Fletcher '25 with third place in the 45 yard hurdles, and the 1927 relay team, which soundly trounced a yearling M. I. T. quartet...
...performances by University representatives. In all three of the University relay races their opponents numbered some of the fastest men in the country, and particularly in the B. A. A. contest, the University pressed the Unicorn runners to the limit. R. G. Allen '26, in the lead-off position, ran a beautiful race, trailing Dudley of the B. A. A. by only a stride in the first few laps, and then passing him on the next to the last lap, and piling up a 20 yard lead. B. A. A. lost several yards by clumsy handling of the baton...