Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taking a walk one afternoon at 5:00, the President was nearly run down by a Ford delivery truck driven by a Negro. Just as the President was crossing the street between the White House and the Treasury Building, the car swung into the street from Pennsylvania Ave. Two secret service men seized the President by the arms and drew him back. He said nothing...
...horses which draw the carriage are not driven by a coachman but by mounted postilions...
...early the next morning attired himself in conspicuous English tweeds, went shopping in the village of Doorn, posed amiably for photographers. Returning to his father's chateau, he personally took the wheel of a large touring car, into the tonneau of which climbed Wilhelm and Prince Henry. A limousine driven by the former Prince of Hesse drew up and was entered by the Princess of Hesse (the former Kaiser's sister Margaret) and Hermine...
...Walford, a member of the carpenter staff of the University in whose charge the winding of the clocks has rested for the last ten years, told a CRIMSON reporter that when the wind blows from the north or northeast all the rain and snow with it is driven into the orifice in the side of the clock's face in which the axle of the hands turns. When sleet comes with the wind it is forced around the axle and when it congeals the hands must stop turning...
...Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut-a post creditably filled until 1790, when...