Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hamlin said that each of the twelve plays will have a run of five performances. This year's plays each ran from six to eight times...
When the U.S. ran out of silver dol lars a year and a half ago, it meant only one thing for Nevada's gambling casinos: snake eyes. Gone were the traditional silver-dollar slot machines, the familiar clank of "cart wheels," the bulging pants pockets. At least until onetime Adman Joseph Segel came on the scene...
...Fanny ran for 888 performances and made Merrick and his investors $847,726.74 clear profit on an investment of $275,000. Merrick was in, and he meant to stay in. With a shrewdness and energy that scared his rivals stiff, he moved to consolidate and exploit his position...
...campaign and two months in rehearsal and two months on the road and-and then at last the great day came. After three years of brain-bruising, tongue-twisting, leg-laming, wallet-wrecking labor, Fanny opened on Broadway with an unprecedented advance sale of $1,000,000 And then ran into trouble. Most of the critics liked the show, but they said so in such dull reviews that the public stopped buying tickets...
...experience that earthquake. First published in 1563, while the temblors of terror were still rolling across Europe, The Actes and Monuments of the Latter Perilous Dayes was the work of John Foxe, an industrious Anglican divine who described two centuries of Protestant persecution in a colossal chronicle that ran to more than 4,000,000 words and was instantly recognized as the first great epic of Protestantism. For more than 300 years, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, as it was popularly called, sold almost as well as the Bible and exerted a strong formative influence on the Protestant ethos...