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Word: runcimans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sturdy old Sir Walter Runciman, 80, yielded a mite further, last week, to the biblical sin of pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Pride | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...boyish posteriors used to be chastened by the laying on of a knotted rope end. That occurred when, as a stripling of 12, he ran away from home and signed on as cabin boy to a certain savage skipper. Today he controls the great Newcastle shipping firm of Runciman & Co., Ltd., and is proud to sit in the House of Commons. Prouder still is he of the fact that his son, also Walter, also sits in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Pride | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...gentleman was Sir Walter Runciman, father of onetime Cabinet Minister Walter Runciman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Octogenarian Thwack | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

That the shot took effect was seen when British Delegate Sir Walter Runciman, genial shipping magnate, remarked candidly: "It looks like friend Muspratt got it right on the bean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 1,000 Delegates | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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