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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianapolis Grocer Albert Galyan, who started his supermarket with little more than two nickels to rub together and ran it up to a $2,500,000 business in two years, stirred up a cake to celebrate. When the bakers got it just right, it stood eight feet high, carried 1,500 roses, weighed just over a long ton. Galyan beamed, cut it up into 17,000 pieces for his customers, threw in a $2,800 Frazer as a door prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

When Geoffrey and Mary married, in 1938, they had a snug life. They paid $7 a week for their house in Surrey, went to theaters and movies, treated themselves to an occasional night on the town in London, entertained friends at home, ran a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How People Rise & Fall | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...charging Boston University line with all-scholastic Harry Agganis behind it proved too much for the Freshman football team yesterday as the Terriers passed and ran their way to an easy 34-0 victory at Weston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Passes Drub Freshman Eleven By Margin of 34-0 | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

That was all for the Crimson. In the third period, Joe Lamanna ran 69 yards for the second Terrier touchdown, and in the final stanza, Brickley scored from midfield on a fourth-down fake kick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pass Interceptions Aid B.U. In 19-6 Win Over Jayvees | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

This man was a good at the poll as he was on the podium. In his last campaign Richmond, Virginia, gave Wintergreen more votes than Mason and Dixon combined, and in Lexington, Kentucky, he ran only 1,830,702 votes behind Straight Whiskey. What is more, he himself cast the final six votes necessary for his election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flavor Lasts | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

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