Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. George Mackaness, professor at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, offered U. S. readers a ponderous, highly-documented life of the vice-admiral that ran to 717 pages, seemed likely to fix Bligh's place in history for a long time to come. A partisan of his hero, Dr. Mackaness has had the advantage of new discoveries of Bligh's personal writing in drawing his portrait, studiously refutes writers who have charged Bligh with inhumanity and tyranny, but not those who have called him hot-tempered, tactless, shortsighted, rough...
Belinda Dan (Dobson) was born in a barn near Carleton, N. C., the daughter of a farmer who also made coffins for a living. Ambitious even in early girlhood, she hated the hard, constricting life of the farm, finally ran away. When she decided to become a nurse, the story really begins...
Many old and interesting books are kept in the archives of Widener. The other day, for instance, Harvard University librarians turned up one reason why the Harvard student body of the Revolutionary War period ran the Reverend Samuel Langdon, President of the College, 1774-80, out of office. His sermons to the students were too long, it is disclosed...
...ever disproved Senator Bailey's contention that he was unaware that Waters-Pierce Oil Co., from which he borrowed $3,300, was still controlled by the Standard Oil Trust. Exonerated, Texas' Bailey returned to the Senate, resigned in 1913, stayed out of politics until 1920 when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He died in a Sherman, Tex. courtroom...
...Andover Borough, N. J., blonde, 16-year-old high-school sophomore Carolyn McDavit last March ran to her parents with the story that Principal R. Elwin Matteson, a married Scoutmaster of 32, had detained her after class, tried to kiss her. Andover Borough's School Board promptly fired Principal Matteson...