Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the five colorful Central American republics the Somoza story received maximum attention. All of the newspapers published either full translations of it, or excerpts from it, or commented upon it. La Estrella de Nicaragua (see cut) ran TIME'S cover on Page One, together with Bob Chapin's map (Somoza on the Spot) and a photograph of the Dictator and some cohorts reading the issue...
...speculating in commodity markets with inside government information finally got Republican Senator Homer Ferguson's investigating committee after Thomas. When Ferguson suddenly stopped investigating, Pearson's nose twitched, and off he went on the scent. Finally, last September, he sniffed out the story. The Merry-Go-Round ran an eye-opening letter from Thomas to Ferguson, threatening to denounce the Michigander for taking favors from big automen, unless he called off his investigation. Since neither Senator would want the note made public, where did Pearson get it? Apparently from. Tom Clark's Department of Justice...
Shannon's fame spread the length & breadth of the Antipodes. In New South Wales one day, Shannon ran a mile in i :34½-a feat more impressive than the world record of 1:34! set by Equipoise at Arlington Park in 1932. In Australia, horses are timed from a standing start, whereas U.S. horses get a five-or six-jump run at the starting pole. The greatest race Shannon ever ran, he lost. That day, he got left at the post by 60 yards and then put on a magnificent charge and barely failed...
...Northeatsern will race in the mile and two-mile relays, but the Crimson will not enter teams in these events, since the varsity ran a relay meet with Rhode Island and Brown Thursday...
Boxing at Harvard, it must be remembered, is an intramural sport. It had Varsity status until 1933, Lamar said, at which time "we ran out of opponents." Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, M.I.T., and other large schools discontinued ring-wars and the College followed suit...