Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present oversupplied with unwed princesses for the all too scanty number of eligible princes. The result of this tragic state of affairs has been to over-value royal males. A difficulty indeed arises when it is noticed that the royal heiresses although greatly under-valued, refuse to be driven out of their respective countries and out of circulation in accord with Gresham's Law. Possibly the reason is that if driven out of one country, they would yet be in another and still available. Or the recent wholesale discounting of all royal values may have upset the working of economic...
...test shafts to determine the nature of the soil have been sunk on the Oxford Street property which has been designated as a projected site for the new chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...
...That the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang, formerly "War lord of Peking," might swarm down again upon that city from Mongolia, whither they were driven during the summer by "Chang and Wu (TIME, June...
...last Mrs. Wilson was driven to the railway station, there to entrain for Vienna. Upon the station wall a brooding portrait is cut in high relief. The long ascetic face, the level academic brow, the expression care-worn but purposeful, are familiar to Mrs. Wilson. Pausing for a moment she commended the likeness...
...declared: "Trench warfare is out of date," the war games were featured chiefly by attempts to maneuvre at tremendous speed and as much under cover as possible. Several battalions were marched over hill and dale as far as 25 miles in one day, and the trucks representing tanks were driven at breakneck speed...