Word: run
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
...once (1897) been a Texas county judge. The son of a Methodist minister, he was inordinately proud of his Scotch-Irish background and of the fact that his ancestors had fought in every North American war since the Revolution. At one time or another, he had run a chain of banks in Texas, a gas company, a cotton exporting firm, a flour mill, a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found...
Second Choice. Gaver thought so too. What he didn't want to do was to run Capot in the Special against a Calumet entry of Coaltown and Ponder-with Coaltown setting a murderous pace and Ponder coming from behind in the stretch. By threatening to keep his horse in the barn, Gaver forestalled that possibility...
...Tigers earned the impractical distinction of outplaying the varsity most of the way. Usually a run-and-kick squad, Princeton featured a good passing game in every period except the third, when the Crimson held control. At all other times, however, Princeton was taking most of the shots, several of them just missing the goal...
Next Tuesday, these six will choose which of the Union activities they want to run. According to the new Union Charter, they may choose among: Crimson Key Representative, Secretary of the Union Committee, chairman of the Athletic, Dance, Freshman Activities, and Common Room Committees...