Word: rucking
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Regular cross country men were all way down in the ruck with Roswell Brayton, the first dependable to finish, in the tenth spot. He was followed by Henry Marcy in fifteenth, Bill Wright in sixteenth, and Cyrus De Coster following them. Charley Worth and John Erhard were twenty-second and third respectively...
...difference in altitude between Wall Street and the Black Hills of South Dakota-5,300 ft.-is no greater than that between the ruck of stockmarket quotations and the price of stock in Homestake Mining Co., most eminent Black Hills business. Biggest and most consistently profitable gold mine in the U. S., Homestake rose during the Depression from. $65 per share in 1929 to a point where, at more than $300 per share in 1933, it was the highest-price active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Since then it has continued upward to the rarefied levels...
...make the victory even more emphatic, another Polish entry won second place. Far in the ruck was the lone U. S. balloon which met adverse winds, staggered to a stop only 520 miles from the start...
...years. Since poets generally discarded their priestlike function for that of self-mindreaders, women have flocked to join the profession and some of them have gone to the head, or near it, of their respective specialties. Last week two U. S. lady poets, whom repute places high above the ruck of feminine poetasters, smote their lyres in unison...
Also ahead of the ruck was a candidate with an astonishing record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...