Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each house had a white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...
Beneath the fun ran a muddy stream of intrigue and high politics. The Stage Hands were wangling for jurisdiction over the Screen Actors. Secretary Joe Obergfell of the Brewery Union was there to keep Teamster Dan Tobin from getting any more beer drivers. Lean, pale Charles P. Howard (who is C. I. O.'s secretary but whose union is still A. F. of L.), hovered in the background like an unbidden ghost, protecting his preserve from jurisdictional poaching by letting it be known that his Typographers might soon hold a referendum on joining C. I. O. But the most...
...Portia On Trial," the piece de resistance in the program now running at the University, is certainly far from being a good picture; but it does have its interesting points. The story, which once ran in the Ladies Home Journal, is one of Faith Baldwin's most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder...
...mile relay team was victorious over Princeton and Yale contingents, though Coach Jaakko Mikkola is dissatisfied with their time, 3:25. The team consisted of Al Hanlon '39, Hobart Lerner '40, Tudor Richards '39, and James Lightbody '40. Richards and Lightbody both ran their quarters in 49.8 seconds...
Unabashed in writing purple passages, Author Gilligan is at his best in communicating scenes of disorder like those that mark the beginning of the strike: "In and out of hovels and flats, from boardinghouses to cheap hotels . . . the word ran from mouth to mouth: mouths of thieves, mouths of safebreakers, mouths of pickpockets, mouths of rowdies, mouths of the half-dead, mouths of the gamblers, mouths of the whores. . . . Throngs of hoodlums moved in secret, waiting for some one deed to start a great one." As a result, readers are not likely to have much confidence in his portraits...