Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spring snow-lay spread over North Dakota's black prairies like thick, grey sauce. It hugged the buttes and ran melting off the gables of crouton-like barns. Hay and wheat farmers around Bismarck, North Dakota's capital*, slouched to their chores. Horses rubbed restlessly against their stalls. Spring was coming to North Dakota...
Enthusiasm ran high at the Big Tree Pool yesterday afternoon when the championship division of the University swimming meet was held before a large gallery which crowded the building. Forty men competed, including the stars of the fraternity and Freshman contests last week; but the honors of the day went to W. S. de Lima '31, holder of many amateur titles, who made his first appearance in races here this year and captured the 100 and 200-yard free style events...
...mauve decade whose four college years taught him the art of a polished dependence upon tradition must have shuddered last evening when he opened his Transcript to the page which bears the clippings headed School and College. Underneath a large cut of a well-known college president there ran a bold face paragraph which mixed up college men and Pullman smoking compartments with disquieting innuendo. Readers of the more widely circulated journals may be interested to know that Mr. Nielson finds that college men lose all marks of their special training after ten to fifteen years when viewed...
While the Ohio road mender had his back turned to his wagon of hot tar. scamps dumped the tar onto the road. Stifling fumes arose. The man ran to his wagon, into the noxious gases. Within a minute he fell into convulsions. A little while later he was bleeding from the mouth. Now, three years after, he is kept in a hospital. He cannot walk. He cannot feel. He writes inane and morbid poetry. He shouts out hymns for his own amusement. His wits are loose...
Before long Fran had collected a flattering group of carpet knights, and while Sam "ran over" to Zenith for a disillusioning visit, Fran succumbed to the blandishments of an Austrian Jew. Sam forgave her, but made her "travel," only to discover that "if there is anything worse than the aching tedium of gazing out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs...