Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were driven out because the Bolshevists were associated with our party in the minds of the voters. Although we are often called Socialists such is not the case, but we don't mind being called names in England the way you do here in America...
...Apply a vacuum pump to water, draw off the vapor, the result is ice. Silica gel grains act as a pump. In the pores of the silica gel, the vapor liquefies, giving it enormous power to absorb vapor. With a small flame under the gel the condensed vapor is driven off, so that its absorbent qualities are unimpaired until the remaining water is frozen...
...chess news has developed rapidly. In particular the persistent writers wanted to know "Why?" Why had Capablanca-born with chess strategy "engraved by dry point upon his infant brain"-been defeated by two Russian "unknowns"? He who had declared "Chess-it is too simple" -why had he been driven to a draw by Lasker and two others? Why had he finished third in the tourney ? At first the master made no explanation, but gradually-as the passport became more wearisome- the persistence of the press took its irritating effect and drew forth remarks. The master reported that at the beginning...
Legend nourishes the play. Into the spirit of a lovelorn girl enters the spirit of her dead lover, driven from her by the mean ambition of her family. It must be exorcised by mighty, most holy incantation...
...Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George III was attacked by a mad woman. In 1736 a wing was added for Frederick, Prince of Wales, later driven from court. This, having later become the residence of the Duke and Duchess of York, is known as York House...