Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Myers. They contended that, by Mayor Duvall's conviction, his election in 1925 was voided. Joseph Hogue claimed office on the ground that he was City Comptroller in the administration of John L. Duvall's immediate predecessor, the late Lew Shank. Walter Myers claimed office because he ran second to John L. Duvall in the 1925 election...
Profoundest silence lay over all Turkey like a pall of death. Not a train ran. Not a boat sailed. Not an airplane flew. Not a factory hummed. Not a siren shrieked, nor a whistle blew. Men neither toiled nor did they sweat. In the cities the streets were deserted, except for a privileged few. Street cars did not run, shops were closed, automobiles were garaged. From Constantinople at the Golden Horn, along the length of the Bosporus, flanked by its minarets and white domes, diurnal scene of a thousand scurrying ships, all was silent as the graveyard...
...evil fortune stayed skulking behind the great curtains of the woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga. After that came the first skirmish at Saratoga, in which Burgoyne won a few downy feathers for his hat; then trouble ran towards him with a war whoop. Due largely to the idiotic incompetence of Lord George Germain, who was sending orders from England, Burgoyne lost the battle of Saratoga. In this, one of the world's fifteen decisive battles, the rocket of British victory broke and splintered down in a bright shower of speeches, excuses...
...successor of Eugene V. Debs, Mr. Berger might be expected to go through the motions of running for the U. S. Presidency next year. Eugene V. Debs ran time and again, polling nearly a million votes in 1912 and again in 1920, his last two campaigns.* But Mr. Berger is not likely to run. Doubtless Poet Henley's "Invictus"? is one of his favorite poems as it was Mr. Deb's. But Mr. Berger is a practical captain of his soul, an editor, an essayist, a politician but not a crusader. He refused to cruise abroad on Henry Ford...
...Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold as wild and intangible as Bayliss is. In fact, it was when she thought Bayliss was consoling himself with a Bohemian girl that Elsa ran hysterically down the hill to him, and thus their marriage became a verity...