Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their playing seasons last week. On Friday Yale defeated Alabama Polytechnic Institute 4-1, and on Saturday the University of Alabama 3-6. The spectacular work of Yale's shortstop, Aldrich, featured both games. Chittenden pitched a good game for Yale against Alabama Polytechnic but on Saturday Lazarus was driven from the box and Coxe, the only veteran pitcher with the team; took his lace in the third inning...
...steadily-increasing impetus toward the final catastrophe. At times, it is true, the action drags, but there is nevertheless an underlying current of intensity that never fails to hold the attention. That this intensity can be successfully founded on so melodramatic a theme--the theme of a man driven to wicked love and murder by the jealous spirit of his wife's first husband--is due rather to the author's technique than to any special merit in the merit itself. It is the touches of realism and the excellent protrayal of the characters of these Castilian peasants, that sustain...
...constructive changes which the University faculties have made in entrance requirements are distinctly in the right direction. If they have not driven the nail home they have at least hit it squarely on the head by directly a levitating two of the difficulties confronting the entering high-school student...
President Lowell of Harvard University appears to have been driven by the increase in the university deficit for the year 1919-1920, which he expects will be doubled during the present university year, to the consideration of an increased tuition fee. The argument leading up to this conclusion is the familiar one of the higher cost of everything which enters into the manufacture of an educated young man, and the assumed inability of the trustees to increase the endowment of the university to a point where old value standards can be maintained...
...metal trade is one of the main industries in Worcester, and in it the employers are especially strongly organized; they are so strong in fact that they have just about driven the moulders' union out of business. The men of such a union might easily seek retaliation by desperate means for what seemed to them equally great injustice at the hands of their employers...