Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Hughes attempted to ease the Mexican situation (TIME, Jan. 7 et seq.) without damage to U. S. interests and without hostilities. He met with difficulties. The light cruiser Tacoma, which has been patrolling the Mexican coast for some time, after putting in at Galveston, ran aground on Blanquilla Reef on its return to Vera Cruz, Rebel capital. There are normally five different lights visible at that point, but it is believed that these were extinguished by the Rebels. The greater part of the crew was taken ashore. The cruiser, still manned by a small complement...
...French blood. Edward Lucas White, classicist and novelist, says: . "I re-call one of Professor Gildersleeve's lectures on The Uses of the Greek Dative. I took notes on the lecture with my right hand while with my left hand I wiped away the tears that ran down my cheeks, so amusing did Professor Gildersleeve make that lecture." At a recent dinner in his honor, when he was told that his name was a household word around the globe, he replied with characteristic modesty: "And yet, when my wife goes shopping they send the things home addressed...
...Harvard team proved his superiority over Wakefield, No. 1 man on Lincoln's Inn, winning three out of four games, 15-8, 13-18, 15-12, 18-15. In this match the men were pretty evenly paired. Dixon took the first game with ease. In the second, however, he ran up a score of 12-7, and at that point Wakefield began to tally, evening up at 13. The game was then set at five and the Lincoln's Inn man scored the required points in succession. Close scoring featured the last two games, for the players kept evening...
...Tokyo was on the streets to witness the passing of Crown Prince Hirohito on his way to a session at the Diet. At one point a young man broke through the police cordon, ran a few steps after the Crown Prince's automobile, and, raising a "cane-gun,"* fired at the Prince. The bullet shattered the glass in the machine but did not harm Hirohito. Viscount Tamemori Irlye, Chamberlain to the Prince Regent, was wounded slightly by the falling glass...
...injury occurred by a rope striking the Kaiser in the course of some manoeuvres and that no altercation occurred between him and von Hahnke. He said that the Lieutenant went ashore for a spin on a bicycle and on descending a mountain path lost control of his machine, ran over the edge of a cliff, was dashed into the sea and killed...