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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's a corker, he said, producing a clipping headed "Cop Clubs and Bombs Rout Harvard Rioters." In response to the mysterious disappearance of the Memorial Hall bell clapper, 2000 students, mostly freshmen, had broken into Radcliffe dormitory and ran through the halls screaming "We want out bell clapper and we want beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Yard Cop Misses Good Old Beery Days | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...drill night last week, 50 white-helmeted MPs came roaring onto the Capitol grounds in a line of bouncing, skidding jeeps. Luckily for all concerned, Congress had gone home for the day. Most of the guardsmen ran off into the bushes with waving pistols and carbines, yelling "Take cover!" But a few drivers kept their jeeps snarling in circles. Other MPs ran to the Capitol steps and set up a light machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITOL: The Big Dream | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Paris, Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger ran into an old French custom. Speaking before the American Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...They're Wilting!" Coach Enright paced the sidelines, hoped for a break-and got one. Carolina's star halfback, Steve Wadiak, got some blocking and ran a kickoff back 60 yards. A few plays later Carolina had a touchdown. At halftime the score was 13-13, and Enright began to believe in miracles. As his boys ran in & out of the game they told him: "Coach, they're wilting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Thursday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Levy stopped he was held by the assailant while another man standing nearby grabbed one of his arms. A third robber appeared and helped his two comrades in the robbery. Albert Rosenberg '52, who was returning from Radcliffe, saw the scuffle, and after hearing Levy's shouts, ran to his aid, causing the attackers to disperse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Men Attack Graduate Student | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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