Word: ransomes
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...Berg has been returned safely to his home. This was brought about through information furnished by John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch and the aid of the police. No ransom has been paid...
...Monroe, Wis., Fred J. Blumer, neer-beer manufacturer, was captured, chained and blindfolded, held nine days for $150,000 ransom, released when police trailed the kidnappers...
...Petersburg, Fla., six men and a woman kidnapped one R. W. Oxford, flogged him. Police thought the motive was not ransom but revenge...
...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...
...Bond Astronomical Club, of which Shapley is one of the three counsellors, is headed by Professor W. R. Ransom, of Tufts College, and meets periodically at the Harvard Observatory. It was founded for the purpose of bringing amateur study to bear upon the problems of modern stellar science, and consists of prominent professional and amateur scientists. Its rapid growth was one of the leading causes for the recently announced annex to the main section of the University plant, since existing accommodations are proving too small for the frequent meetings of the club...