Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are two Alf M. Landons. There is the Governor Landon of Kansas. That is the man I know. Then there is the Candidate Landon. . . . Candidate Landon is running for the Presidency on an anti-New Deal platform, but Governor Landon ran for a second term for the Governorship of Kansas on a 100% New Deal platform...
...crying "Look at Jackson! There he stands like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!" In mid-afternoon a fresh contingent of Joe Johnston's troops trotted up, charged with "Stonewall" Jackson's infantry and "Jeb" Stuart's cavalry. The tired, untrained Yankees broke and ran. Next day the North knew it was in for a real...
...Osteopathic manipulations to stimulate circulation in the affected parts and thus build up the natural immunity of the body against the onslaught of the virus of infantile paralysis was the only treatment of the disease which proved its effectiveness. Osteopathic treatment after the disease ran its course has uniformly shown improvement in paralytic conditions."- Osteopath James Watson of Los Angeles...
...death, tried to cross England in time to slap his dead face before he was buried. Her mother's marriage, writes the daughter, was "an unhappy one," and when her father died soon after Laura's birth, everybody said, "It is for the best." A mustachioed aunt ran a lace factory at St. Quentin, France, while her pusillanimous husband got drunk and cried for money. Laura, however, admired her bachelor uncle and some of his friends, though the uncle presently put the family's Nottingham lace factory into bankruptcy...
Most ironic development in Bass's career came with his spectacular, profitless raids on the dinky little Texas trains that ran from Dallas to Houston. They occurred at the height of the Granger agitation for lower freight rates, when railroads were denounced throughout the West, consequently aroused excitement out of all proportion to their importance as robberies. Afterwards Bass apparently could count on enough support among the farmers to feel sure of hiding places when pursuit grew hot, although his attacks on the railroads had not helped the farmers and scarcely hurt the carriers...