Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heartbroken and embittered, Poland's leaders faced more than the loss of their country at the railway stations in Rumania. No trains ran to the destination that they had to face. The Republic was dead. In its 20 years of life it had grown despite the fact that it had only a period between 1926 and 1929, some 30 months at most, of prosperity. The men who divided it talked of the injustice of the treaty of Versailles...
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press. Week later from the Federal Communications Commission (James Lawrence Fly, chairman) came a curt order to WMCA to show cause, within 72 hours, why its license should not be revoked...
...good old-fashioned education" hi Paterson public schools (one of his masters used to beat his hand with a strap until blood ran). Says Dr. Butler: "The present-day notion, that an infant must be permitted and encouraged to explore the universe for himself . . . had, fortunately, not yet raised its preposterous head. In my time children were really educated." Dr. Butler ruefully records that he stood third in his high-school graduating class, below a grocer's daughter and a contractor...
...ran a headline in London's Sunday Express. Datelining their dispatches "Somewhere in Surrey," or "on the Cambridgeshire-Northants border," correspondents reported that 1,000,000 city children were busy fishing, blackberrying, golfing, bathing, enjoying many another unaccustomed treat...
...still cleaned the Cincinnati streets; Conestoga wagons still lumbered past the house on their way West; downriver pilots still swaggered on the levee. Danny fought the "river rats," dug for gold in the backyard, had a backyard menagerie of crows, squirrels, snakes. Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche...