Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rodentia on the front pages as only the Pied Piper* or Arch bishop Hatto Il? could have done. It was not a migration of lemmings (TIME, Jan. 10) that they had to report, but an incredible multitude of common field and house mice, driven from their cosy holes in vineyards of the dry Vista Lake basin by heavy rains and by a great herd of sheep turned out to graze where grain had grown before...
...Prospects and, it is to be presumed, remuneration would be graded similarly. This would solve the problem in so far as it concerns a need for ambition. The tutor could strive to elevate himself in the standing. As far as the actual compensation is concerned, even his suggestion is driven back to the meltable plea for more funds, The Harvard Fund is symptomatic of a desirable change that is indeed taking place in the collection of funds for the University, but how long it will be before it is possible to apply such money to the proper remuneration of teachers...
Another nail has been driven into the coffin of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At a meeting of its Executive Committee last Sunday, the I. C. A. A. A. A., the strongest collegiate administrative body now functioning, gave an unqualified vote of support to the American Olympic Committee and disapproved of the actions of the N. C. A. A. and its affiliated bodies. Following on the footsteps of the attacks on the A. A. U. and the Olympic body by the N. C. A. A. and the Y. M. C. A., the action...
Died. Marvin McTyeire Parks, 54, President of Georgia State College for Women; in Tampa, Fla.; when struck by automobile driven by a Negress...
...Smith, Viscount Furneaux and Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord. Driven by one 'Teddy Oysters,' valiant old-school London cabby, the young Earl of Northesk led a 'hansom cab race' of nine other peers-about-town through Piccadilly to the very door of the Kit-Cat. . . . The police, unable to ignore the place after this escapade, prepared to raid it. Discovering...