Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great has been the success of this campaign of ominous warning, that a fortnight ago a rival dentifrice-maker was driven to spread across an entire page of the Saturday Evening Post, a retaliatory question: "IS PYORRHEA BEING OVER-EMPHASIZED...
...arrived to make the victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence whom Marshal Allenby had fetched by airplane that the Colonel and the Field Marshal might enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven by his eccentric soul to retire from the Near East, seek solitude at Oxford, and finally assume, incognito, the rank and style of "Private Ross of his Majesty's Tank Corps...
Last week the Prince Regent passed through Yamaguchi on a tour of inspection. The populace, devoutly conscious that his lineage is traced directly to the gods, prostrated themselves before him. Reclining in his softly purring limousine, he was driven past the irrevocably barred gates of the Nambas...
Switzerland reported successful tests with the world's most monstrous electric locomotive-a train-hauler driven by six motors developing 4,500 horsepower. Over 20 meters long (65 ft.), weighing 283,350 Ibs., is can be driven by one man and will hurtle along at 100 miles an hour with a loaded passenger train in tow. Soon it will be in service on the International Electric Line, racing over the Alps to Berne; plunging through the Simplon tunnel into Italy...
...Whippet," a low-slung coursing car designed to make 55 miles an hour and 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England, the Citroen and Baby Peugeot in France...