Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I had driven for some distance, my companions called to me from the back of the car to stop. I applied the brakes, turned around, and sav Matteotti all doubled up and vomiting blood. Five minutes later he was dead. Neither I nor my friends placed a hand on him, except to push him into the car. Fright must have brought on an acute recrudescence of the tuberculosis from which he suffered...
...Sibley '28, who opened the negative side of the argument, after remarking that tabloid newspapers seemed to be the only text books used at Yale, launched into a discussion of education as the formative influence in the development of the child. The child full of potentialities is driven by its natural curiosity to investigate and experiment, and as a guide in this inevitable development education becomes a necessity...
...Actors Driven From Stage...
...Dana went on to describe at great length the riot of the first night, during which the actors were driven from the stage by the students who disapproved of the play's representation of Harvard life. He also read several selections from the play itself which showed its satirization of Harvard men and customs. The play is broad and farcical in its tone and offers great possibilities to its present producers for parody on current Harvard life, as well as on the life of the much discussed "gay nineties...
Round and round and round. The hours merged into nights, the nights into days, until all nights and days were one, an endless circle coiling round and round, until past, present, future, became only a) chain-driven wheel rotating under the arena roof. Who could tell tomorrow from yesterday? Not the pedaling juggernauts. For all they knew, Time had reversed its gears and left them to pump on and on into the past. Douglas Fairbanks offered $200 for a sprint; Mary Pickford's starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept...