Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel, The Garden of Allah, sold to over a million copies. Made into a play in 1911 by the author in collaboration with Mary Anderson (actress-author), it ran for two seasons in the Century Theatre, Manhattan; for three seasons in London...
...Isabel, flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Hughes Hough, churned the waters of the Yangtze River last week. Passing between Nanking and Pukow, the gunboat ran into the Chinese war. Bullets spat from both sides of the river, whistling across the decks, flattening themselves against the armor...
Georgia Barbecue. A mingling of whites and blackamoors occurred last week in Woodland, Ga. The scene was a huge barbecue, given by a group of Caucasians for the Negroes of the vicinity. Members of the two races ran foot races toi gether, feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white...
...Europa ran into an inky fog over the North Sea, turned back, tried to skirt the fog; failed; came down near Bremen, Germany, slightly damaged. The pilots said that attempting navigation through the fog would have been suicide...
...beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch of horses they climbed*; they performed inconsistently and ran good races only when breaking from the barrier far outside. Now they can see where they are going. They run fast in bunches. Racemen at Saratoga are converted. They see it all now, like the horses...