Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually, however, the Botany Department began to replace the Gardens with modern equipment; new greenhouses now hold rare live plants. War brought another shortage of expert help, and money ran low as interest lagged. The Gardens had outlived their usefulness...
...appeal follows two incidents in the past 12 months: the BU game on February 9, when one referee was struck by a beer can and feeling ran high between the two teams, and the second Yale game last year when Dave Abbot was severely slashed in a brawl with Yale's Artie Moher...
...Never Forget . . ." One recent advertiser, Gerhardt Stumm, a plump, 31-year-old salesman, paid extra (minimum rate: about 50? a week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm...
Funny Things About the Stars. At 22, at the University of Chicago, she wrote a Ph.D. thesis entitled "A Study of Prayer from the Standpoint of Social Psychology." After arguing her thesis with the faculty, she ran out into the darkness and "threw a kiss to the stars. 'Your loveliness,' I cried, 'I've been proving the funniest things about you. I hope you enjoyed that nice debate...
Last week, Kentucky's grim basketballers took the ax to Alabama (74-32), then ran Mississippi through the grinder (85-31). Next on the list was Georgia Tech. One man from Tech heatedly denied that the team was worried about the trip to Lexington. Said he in a slow drawl: "We adore playing them, because when they get beat they take it so hard." But Kentucky, currently ranked No. i by the nation's sportwriters' poll,* hadn't lost a home game in seven years. Down went Georgia Tech...