Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Stevens of the University crew has engaged the Metropolitan Ice Company to commence cutting ice on the Charles River at 8.30 o'clock this morning, it was anounced last night. The Metropolitan Company will employ a gasoline driven ice-cutter in an attempt to break up the ice, and clear the river for the crews. The cutting will be done above the Newell Boat House which will afford the University rowers a fairly long course and will hasten the breaking up of the ice further down the river...
...been a very sad thing ... to see the nuns driven out and the convent looted. . . . Thirty years ago I founded my convent; what is there left for me? . . . We taught the young girls to do good works among the poor; I had 200 under my rule. . . . No one can imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray...
...told that the automobile of M. Le Maréchal had crashed into a motor driven by Mlle. Godart, the daughter of M. Justin Godart, Minister of Labor and Health in the last Herriot Cabinet (TIME, June 23, 1924). He told that the scene of the crash was the broad Champs-Elyseées, where motor cars have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?...
...Wall Street was that the National City Bank (the greatest in the U. S., with total assets of $1,215,033,702) was in process of absorbing the Corn Exchange Bank; that the Central Union Trust Co., the National Park Bank and the Chemical National Bank might be driven into union by Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co. (he is reported a large stockholder in the first two); and that the Irving Bank-Columbia Trust Co. and the Chatham & Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. would join...
...Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united...