Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body that Lord Mori secured him an appointment to the Military School. Thence he ran through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, Lieutenant General Tanaka was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...Hearst obtained some 200 delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 1904, but was not nominated for President. The next year he was defeated by Tammany for mayor of New York by a bare 3,000 votes. It was said that the count was crooked. In 1906 Mr. Hearst ran against Charles E. Hughes for Governor of New York and lost. In 1909 he was again defeated for mayor...
...history from the time when the Great Spirit set aside the region as a place of particular beauty and sanctity. The most spectacular part of the spectacle was not on the program, but came when two horses scheduled to stage a runaway from a covered wagon attacked by Indians ran in earnest and evaded cowboys posted to round them up. Toward the packed crowd surrounding the field galloped the horses. Mrs. Coolidge covered her face with her hands. But no one was trampled. The horses found an opening in the crowd, made for it, disappeared with cowboys in pursuit. They...
...ceremony drew to a close and King Michael descended the Tribune he ran happily to Princess Helene, crying: "Let's go home, mama, I'm hungry." Soon a special train carried His Majesty swiftly to his distant chateau, the Little Pelesh. At Bucharest the royal grown-ups turned their attention to the funeral of King Ferdinand...
...Brooklyn, Ruth Galfas, 14 months old, caught a greedy chunk of banana in her windpipe; her father Hyman, frantic, ran with her to a drug store, was intercepted by Patrolman Francis Ryan. Patrolman Ryan, calm, dislodged the banana lump; the baby seemed dead. Patrolman Ryan, resourceful, put a handkerchief over her mouth and breathed down her throat for 20 minutes. She revived...