Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another diversion - or dementia - on the part of the visiting Elks was scattering confetti on the populace below from hotel windows, and when the 'fetti ran out, so the story runs, hundreds of pillows were ripped open and the feathers were strewn "all over Creation and a part of Cincinnati...
When the English governess of little Michael ran to wake him with news of the king's death and first addressed her charge as "your Majesty,"this large, serious eyes betrayed a vague puzzlement. Three days later he was still digesting his new title...
...least, ran the continuation of the flood district articles written by L. C. Speers, alert staff correspondent of The New York Times (TIME, July 18). Last week's articles, dealing with conditions in Louisiana, emphasized three points: the destitution of the people; the failure of the emergency loan-relief system to function; and a growing resentment toward the inactivity of the Federal Government. Destitution. It is about 17 miles from Delta Point, La., to Tallulah, La. In this territory Mr. Speers counted 234 houses still in water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area...
World's Record One day last week-a fine midwinter's day in South Africa-one Authur Newton rose before dawn in Gwelo, Rhodesia, and ran till after dusk reaching Buluwayo, 100 miles away, in 14 hr., 45 min. Mr. Newton claimed a world's record which none disputed...
...cannon ball, Balzac dashed into love affairs at every turn. His first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money was to write more books, this principle accounts...