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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank H. Krebs is a tall, 26-year-old member of the army reserve corps at Chicago's Municipal Airport. One day last week Frank Krebs ran out onto the field, hopped up on the wing of an idling plane to have some routine papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pickaback | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Ga., an unemployed night-watchman, James Worthy, depressed by having spent his last penny, piped the exhaust of his car in a window, turned on the engine, began inhaling fumes. Doubly depressed was the would-be-suicide when his car ran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Partisan | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...PUBLIC PAPERS AND ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 5 Vols.-Ran- dom House ($15). Dating from the New York Governorship to January 1937. with introductions and annotations, a total of 3,493 pages in all. A 14¼-pound shelf-filler, five trunkfuls of vigorous clichés, these handsome volumes have been widely hailed by critics as a successor to the monumental, unread papers of Woodrow Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Home-run were in order over the weekend. On Friday, Grondahl smacked a long one through right field with one on Saturday, Lupe clouted one into deep left. With the crack of the bat the Columbia left-fielder turned and ran back but the ball still sailed far over his outstretched hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '41 Oarsmen Triumph; Baseballers Retain League Lead | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Campbell who ran a sizzling 1:57.4 half-mile in the handicap meet and hasn't been extended since, is a sure bet in the 880. And, incidentally, he may well crack the meet record of 1:58.2, set by Bill Bingham in 1913. He will double in the 440, where the Crimson has been weakened by the loss of Dan Hamilton, weakened to such an extent that Exeter swept the event Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/10/1938 | See Source »

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