Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew stronger, until it overshadowed the tangible world of money and man, fleets and maps; hourly its influence spread, reaching into the minds of Generals and Premiers. Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued, for its brief span it ran the Chancelleries, changed the plans, wrote the communiques. It was the speed of Germany's advance through Poland-not the fact of German victory, but the pace of German arms...
...whole frontier fortification is called Siegfried. Adolf Hitler named the part which faces France the Limes, for Limes Germanicus, the old Roman wall and earthworks that ran along the same position. But Limes Germanicus was built against the Germans, to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge...
...philanthropy but common sense kept the producers from hiking their price. In 1913 newsprint mills were running at about 85% of capacity, could not keep pace with expanding Wartime needs. Since the War production has far outstripped normal peacetime needs. Last year the mills ran at only 65% of capacity, had more than enough in reserve to keep the presses of the U. S. rolling...
...relief from four consecutive days of scrimmage, the Varsity football team yesterday ran through an easy drill with live tackling practice the only contact work. Precision and finesse were the afternoon by-words, as the A and B teams alternated offensively against a dummy defense...