Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing and an honest Englishman, one Mr. Crick, has been driven nearly distracted during the past six months, trying to serve as postmaster in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...
...playwright has reduced the problem to unjustifiably simple terms. His querist springs from a clash between fundamentalism and atheism. He is the son of an unyielding minister and he is in love with the daughter of a belligerent unbeliever. Driven by the fear inspired by both these attitudes he sets out to find a god before whom he will not have to cower...
When you see your first war play in several years, two points are driven home in short order. The first is that the tears, the significant remarks and so on do not ring true, and the other is that the humor isn't half as bad as you used to think it was when you were deluged with it some years back...
...super-cruisers, has failed to agitate the Navy Department. Hobbled by the Versailles Treaty on naval construction, Germany has evolved a special type of small hard-hitting battle-cruiser, which may or may not cause revolutionary changes among naval architects. The vessel 9,000-ton displacement, is driven at 26 knots by 50,000 h. p. Diesel motors. (U. S. cruisers are to speed at 33 knots.) It mounts eleven-inch guns (U. S. cruisers eight-inch). Solid-hulled, without rivets, it costs...
George V. A motor ambulance suitable for transporting His Majesty to the Sussex seaside where he will recuperate (TIME, Feb. 4) was driven into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, last week, and later the Royal physicians announced that they had "thoroughly tested its suitability...