Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican also-ran of 1936 and his manager later produced a formal announcement: "Under the American system of government, the country needs an intelligent, constructive and militant minority. . . . This means the continuation of an active national headquarters that will be able to furnish the people of this country with a fair statement of facts. It means intelligent assistance to the Republican members of the United States Congress and, of more importance, the stimulation of the details of party organization. No man or woman who has assumed a position of leadership in the campaign just ended can fail to realize...
...family always spelled the name De Gas. His half-Italian father was a moderately rich banker who went to Paris about the year 1800 to open a branch of the family's Neapolitan banking house. His mother (Adele Musson) was born in the U. S.; her brother Michel ran a cotton brokerage business in New Orleans. Edgar Degas started as a well-intentioned student. Ingres was his life-long ideal, but lessons from a pupil of a pupil of Ingres was as close as he could come...
...wildest, fastest, most astonishing Yale-Princeton football game on record. Sandbach's field goal and White's two touchdowns climaxing long marches put Princeton ahead 16-to-0 in the first 20 minutes. Yale came back with one touchdown just before the half. After intermission, Yale ran wild for two more touchdowns, the last on a long pass by Frank to Captain Larry Kelley. Early in the fourth period, Princeton got to Yale's 3-yd. line. Yale held, and its star punter, Dave Colwell, who was operated on for appendicitis a month ago, hurried into...
Paced by Quarterback Art Guepe, who ran for three touchdowns, and Halfback Ray Buivid, who passed for two more, Marquette rolled up the biggest score of its all-victorious season, 33-to-0, against Mississippi...
Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed...