Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's most spectacular publisher last week celebrated the birth of his business. It was 50 years since William Randolph Hearst was given the San Francisco Examiner by his father, rich old Senator George Hearst. To mark the anniversary, the first publishing property of the Hearst enterprises ran off a 134-page edition of 306,000 copies. One of its most striking features was a letter, written by "Will" Hearst, 24 and recently rusticated from Harvard, to tell his father what he would do if he had the Examiner to play with...
Scoring two goals and an assist in Saturday's Yale slaughter Captain George Ford wound up his undergraduate hockey days in a blaze of glory and ran his point total of his four years of collegiate competition...
Three evenings later the wedding guests in Cumberland Church heard Minister Johnson invoke the usual blessings upon all the assembled. Whispers ran through the pews when he said: "We are gathered together for the announcement of the wedding of this man and this woman." Surprise, bewilderment, and finally the relief of comprehension followed as those not in on the secret listened to the following...
...brisk wind was blowing from the German lines in the Ypres sector toward the trenches held by French and Algerian troops. Shortly after 5 p. m. the Allied soldiers saw a sinister greenish cloud rolling toward them across No Man's Land. Some of them broke and ran; thousands stuck to their posts or fled too late. Soon the trenches were heaped with gasping, choking, dying men. The gas was chlorine, 168 tons of which were released that day from 5,730 cylinders over a four-mile front. There were 15,000 casualties including 5,000 deaths...
...Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman's output, or encouraged any man or woman to do so." He walked into success like a happy somnambulist: "That period was all, as I have said, a dream, in which it seemed that I could push...