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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along the battlefront of the Tariff War last week ran the clatter of musketry as Senate soldiers tussled for the first time over actual rates. There was so much scampering back and forth between the lines that at times it was hard to tell on which side a Senator was really fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Rate Encounters | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Like many a young woman now earning a good living in the show business, Lenore Ulric never had much luck until she went to work for David Belasco. Her father was a steward in an army hospital in Milwaukee. She was born in New Ulm, Minn. She ran away from the 5th grade to be a cigaret girl in a stock-company Carmen. She told Belasco where she had played-Chicago, Grand Rapids, Schenectady. She had walked into the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Less sure of himself was another Chilean, 20-year-old Luis Ramirez Olachea, who hid nervously behind a tree while President Ibaez inspected cows. As SeÑor IbaÑez made his august emergence, Luis Olachea stumbled uncertainly through the ranks of saluting soldiery, ran forward, waving a rusty revolver. President Ibaez fixed him with an icy stare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Rusty Revolver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...questions on law, diplomacy, U. S. history, the number of dogs in Chicago. This procedure eliminated all but 21 who were sent into another room, made to chase imaginary dogs in a hypothetical back yard. One Philip Keafta, who had chinned himself 45 times, held his breath 45 seconds, ran about the room, tripped on a taut wire hazard, fell and broke his ankle. He was qualified, however, and when he emerges from the hospital will, be s City Dog Catcher, salary $2,200 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Only five men from the Harvard squad ran in the contest. C. B. Davis '31 was the first Crimson man to finish, arriving in eighteenth position. J. P. Duane '32 came in twenty-first place; C. B. Currier '32 was number 24; P. S. Dalton, Jr. '31, 33; and G. H. Foley '32 placed thirty-fifth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRINGFIELD HARRIERS WIN INTERCOLLEGIATES | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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