Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal & Presidential party swept up from the station and through the Brandenburg Gate, a crowd of some 30,000 saw with amazement that the last motor in the procession was bright red and driven by Friedrick Wilhelm, onetime German Crown Prince & Crown Prince of Prussia. Uninvited, he had merrily slipped up behind. Prudent, he soon turned down a side street amid scattered cheers and more booes...
When the jury went out, the judge, not expecting a quick decision, left the court. Three hours later, he was fetched from a nearby village and driven back to the courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty...
...Lord" who possesses a huge mobile army and is now skulking in Honan province was reported "tirelessly engaged," last week, in preparing for his long heralded Spring onslaught upon Peking, a capital which he has several times captured. On the last oc- casion he was, of course, finally driven from Peking by Chang Tso-lin (TIME...
...Ousted from Chicago, escorted out of Los Angeles, received tentatively by Miami, Fla., Capone was last week driven out of Miami by editorials in the Miami Beach Sun, whose editor, Kent Watson, was lately beaten by gangsters following the Sun's campaign against an allegedly crooked gambling resort...
California. The California, largest merchantship (22,000 gross tons) ever built in the U. S. and the only liner driven by electricity, glided into New York Harbor last week to take on stores for her maiden trip to San Francisco. For motive power, fuel oil generates steam, which operates two turbines, which operate two dynamos, which operate two motors, which operate two propeller shafts, which make the ship go. She is vibrationless...