Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Quebec's French-speaking citizenry received them, causing New York Timesman John MacCormac to observe: "Canadian crowds are given to taking their pleasures silently, if not sadly." But the farther west Their Majesties went on their 26-day Canadian trip, the more English and enthusiasm they ran into, until, at Ottawa, the crowd went crazy and somebody actually slapped George on the back. At that point the Royal visit-whose chief purpose was to bring Canada as close as possible into the arms of the war-scared mother country-could be said to have achieved its effect...
Winning only one first place, but copping four out of seven of the second positions and more than their share of thirds and fourths, Lowell House ran up a 15 point lead over its nearest rival, Leverett, in the field events division of the inter-House track meet yesterday afternoon, and appears likely to repeat its triumph of last year...
...financially, 1938-39 was a cut above 1937-38. Like last season, about 50% of its 90-odd plays were out-&-out flops. But compared to last season's 19, 24 plays ran (or will run for the Fair) over 100 performances...
...nation as a whole this is certainly no formula for wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects of the strike will continue to be evident in chart and index for weeks to come...
Beard's great-grandfather was a Federalist, his grandfather a Whig and rebel Quaker who ran "a one-man church" and speculated in Western lands; his father was a "copper-riveted, rock-ribbed, Mark Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator...