Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's record for 440 yd. is 46 plus seconds, and for 100 yd., 9.4 seconds. Let's assume that he ran the first 440 yd. in 46 seconds flat, and the next 100 yd. in an even nine seconds. He would then have covered 540 yd. in 53 seconds, leaving him three seconds to cover the last...
...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
Five years ago Paul Bonynge, New York lawyer, first cousin of onetime Congressman Robert William Bonynge from Colorado, ran for the post of county judge in Long Island's suburban Nassau County. Suave, patrician Paul Bonynge candidly told his constituents even in those Prohibition days that now and then, when he wanted a drink, he took it. He was beaten. Campaigning again on a platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction...
...possible outcome of continuing League Sanctions against Italy, that does not affect South Africa, which intends to support the League to the last! If the League now collapses, South Africa at least will have the satisfaction that the world knows South Africa was not among those countries which ran away from their duty to the League of Nations...
...Since the Suez Canal was opened (with Britain as a major shareholder since 1875 by Disraeli's finesse), the King's subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once be got into safe shape. In this queasy moment it was British...