Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship was able to proceed through enemy zones and sink hostile ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world add to his numerous experiences...
...very front of motor development, Lester J. Hendershot, young Pittsburgh civil engineer working for the U. S. Topographical Survey, secretly presented his new type electric motor to such men at Pittsburgh, Detroit and Manhattan last week. Without any connection to any apparent power store, the machine ran for hours. The energy came, said the inventor, from the electricity accumulated by the earth in its daily and yearly rotations. Quite probable, acknowledged physicists, but not more of that planetary charge can be continuously tapped to operate more than a toy motor. Frankly skeptical, they awaited for Inventor Hendershot to patent...
...easy enough as a rule to scrape acquaintance with a Pullman waiter. Dr. Frank Gonzales. President of the Armour Institute, quite often exchanged words with Archibald J. Motley who ran the buffet on the "Wolverine" between New York and Chicago. When he found out that Mr. Motley had a young son who liked to paint pictures, he sent for the son and looked at the paintings. This done, he offered to finance Archibald Motley Jr. through his first semester in the Chicago Art Institute...
...prove to his stockholders that their tin investments were based on a sound commodity. Then he let go with another toot: ''Americans are so busy and so imprisoned in their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen if the tin supply ran out and they had to fall back on ordinary food. The U. S. consumes 50% of the world...
...program is featured with the following events which are given with the present records and the athletes who hold them. The only University runner who has a place among the indoor I. C. 4A stars is W. I. Tibbets '26 who ran the Intercollegiate record two-mile on March 6, 1926. He accomplished it in 9 minutes, 30 4-5 seconds...