Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight Dawes House, given to the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J., by Vice President Charles Gates Dawes in memory of his son, Rufus, burned to the ground. Fifty boys were driven out by the flames. Among them was Dana McCutcheon Dawes, adopted son of the Vice President...
According to what Le Matin has heard from Cologne, the Belgian priests who refused to ring the church bells when Antwerp was taken have been driven away from their places...
Colorado. "Too much talking has ruined politicians," says Colorado's newly-elected Governor William H. Adams. During his campaign he made one speech three minutes long and issued one statement. For 47 years an officeholder, he has never been defeated, never driven an automobile, never played golf. A Democrat, he carried Colorado by 99,000 votes despite a Hoover majority...
...chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...
Leonora Canwick enlists in the A. E. F. and get quite a bit older while she is trying to keep from the inquisitive people she meets the fact of her sex. The subject admits of any number of subtleties most of which are driven home with that quiet nicety of steam riveters working opposite your window early in the morning...