Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aunt was eating her supper. She heard Mrs. Bridges scream and plop on the concrete below. She ran down two flights of stairs and arrived in the little dark alley the same time as Harry Bridges. He was in his undershirt with shaving cream on his face. The woman appeared to be unconscious and Mr. Bridges asked my aunt to remain with her while he went upstairs to telephone for an ambulance...
...ran out to the Nanking Road side of the narrow lounge, hurdling overturned tea tables, chairs and prostrate forms of guests seeking the safety of the floor. Through the gaping windows on the Nanking Road I could see at least 50 persons writhing on the sidewalk and roadway. Three foreigners were trying to crawl over the bodies of dead Chinese...
...earth split the farm of Harley Robertson, soon widened as its sides fell in, became a canyon 200 ft. deep, its bottom crawling, heaving, puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected...
...their lengthy battle the sugar refining lobbyists ran up against opposition as tough as Washington could provide: the Roosevelt Administration. Secretary of State Hull objected to the 1937 Sugar Bill because: 1) it cut down Good Neighbor Cuba's raw sugar quota by 6% and Cuba's refined sugar quota by one-fifth-something to make other Good Neighbors suspicious of Mr. Hull's advances; 2) the Supreme Court had already cited U. S. refiners for monopoly. Secretary of the Interior Ickes ranted about lobbyists who would discriminate against his islands: "A form of protection not even...
...Hammond died at the age of 81 in an easy chair in his showplace at Gloucester, Mass., he left an estate estimated at $2,500,000, mostly to his four children, Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard, Financier Harris. Observing that his own taste for economic adventure ran in the blood of his children, especially in that of Son Harris, Father Hammond protected them by leaving the bulk of their inheritances not outright but in trust funds. It was largely due to this foresight that in a Manhattan court last week Harris Hammond was granted a remarkable financial...