Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then she ran through the story of her life. It is mostly a record of academic achievements and in almost all of them she has been something of a pioneer. Miss Cam was born 63 years ago in Essex County, England. "I think the most unusual thing about my childhood was that I had no formal schooling. I was one of nine children. My mother came from an Oxford background, and my father was a parson, and together they educated us all. I tried three times to get into Oxford by passing the 'locals' but couldn't. They did, however...
...other two boys ran through a crowd of 25 passers-by who made no effort to stop them despite Jacob's cries of "Thief, thief." Patrolman Brutti, however, succeeded in getting their names from his young captive...
...Records ran a close second, and girls want the semi-classics, like Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata,--"That's my favorite because it was the background music of a movie I liked," testified one young miss...
...onto his knee, ask it what it wants for a present, listen enraptured to its answer, mutter something about "seeing to it", ask the attendant mother if the little dear has been a good child during the year, and finally give it a funny book. Unfortunately the funny books ran out long ago, so all Heath can offer is a cheery laugh and a pat on the back...
Just how bad an effect this lighting has on the students who work under it is pretty uncertain. Back in 1936 a Missouri elementary school ran off an experiment which discovered that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up at an Ohio Western Electric plant, corelating production with lighting, went the other way: workers, believing the light was improving, jumped their output enthusiastically as the illumination was cut to around that of moonlight. It has been determined, however, that lighting of the College's present caliber will inevitably cause...