Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...races were originally scheduled for two miles, but high winds forced the proceedings into the sheltered Cayuga inlet, which is barely a mile and five-sixteenths long. Conditions were very good for the jayvee race, but the varsity ran into stiff headwinds in the last half mile, which accounts for the additional seconds it took them to row the distance...
...folks wagged their heads mournfully and predicted that Benjamin would break his father. But Horace Jones, a covered-wagon man who got the choicest piece of land in northwestern Missouri, would take a lot of breaking. A shrewd, hard-bitten Welshman, he founded the town of Parnell, ran the Parnell bank, and knew more about raising cattle than anybody in Nodaway County. He wanted Ben to become a banker, but that wasn't in the cards...
...tabbing up ballots from 700 critics and editors in the U.S. and Canada, Musical America handed out its annual honors for the season's best broadcasting musicians. Just as he had nearly every year since 1944, when the magazine made its first poll, 82-year-old Arturo Toscanini ran away with the show...
...year-old stationery salesman and free-lance photographer, sometimes picks up extra money by selling spot news pictures to the New York Journal-American. One day last week, he was standing outside a Manhattan parochial school on his sales route, talking to a priest, when a youngster ran up and gasped: "Father, a little boy's been hit by a truck." Grabbing his camera from his car, Robbins ran after the priest...
...brawny as a coal passer. Fresh out of Harvard Law in 1939, he started as a transportation department apprentice with the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis, two years later became assistant terminal master. During the war, as an Army major in India, he ran a ramshackle railroad which carried supplies to the Ledo Road. Said he: "After I got through with that line I was about ready to become a truck driver...