Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ticket" all her own, fought with stubborn bitterness for the President-Generalship. The "most aristocratic ladies in the country" argued and expostulated for long hours on their relative merits adjourned to drink innumerable cups of tea, and returned to cast their ballots and lose their dignity. When feelings ran high Miss Tupman suddenly withdrew to throw her weight-hardly a lady-like performance-to Mrs. Snodgrass, and pandemonium broke loose...
...Union Pacific, broke with Mr. Fish in 1906, and after initially getting the worst of the bitter struggle which ensued, finally succeeded in securing enough shareholders' proxies to eliminate him from the affairs of the road, as well as from the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Feeling ran high on both sides throughout this financial feud, and in one Directors' meeting Mr. Fish struck and floored J. T. Harahan, who had succeeded him as President of the Illinois Central. A romantic and spirited, if not entirely accurate, narrative of the Harriman-Fish embroglio has recently been written by Garet...
...game which Richards played was almost incredible in pace, flexibility, finish. Journalists ran dry of superlative in their attempts to do him justice and paid him the most potent compliment at their command by naming him as " Tilden's peer...
...crew of the Shipping Board steamer West Helix smoked dried tea leaves instead of tobacco for two weeks. On a two-months' voyage from Antwerp to Boston, attended by gales and machinery trouble, they ran out of cigarettes and tobacco...
...horsepower airplane engine, built by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, ran continuously for 573 hours at full power when tested by the Navy Department-a world's record for engine endurance. This is equivalent to 60,000 miles in a Navy seaplane flying at usual cruising speed (or two and a half times round the world at the equator). Measured against the average record of 6,500 miles per annum of a high grade automobile, it represents nine years' unbroken service at 100 miles per hour. During the war engines scarcely ran 100 hours without overhaul. This tremendous improvement...