Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canton. An angry mob of workmen and students fired on the foreign quarter, Shameen. The fire was immediately returned and several casualties on both sides were reported. After a day's respite the Chinese again attacked and were again driven off. Foreigners erected emergency fortifications, opposite which the Chinese mobilized...
...this line has worked successfully, carrying valuable freight at just under 10c a Ib. This week, the Ford interests started another line-one between Detroit and Cleveland. In the first plane was packed a knocked-down Ford automobile chassis, which, having arrived in Cleveland, was assembled on the field, driven...
...Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet and gold to the royal enclosure...
Shanghai. In gloomy night, on the outskirts of the international settlement, seven coolies held up a car driven by W. W. Mackenzie, British Engineer, and Miss Mary Duncan, British subject. As Miss Duncan reported, Mackenzie got out of the car and asked the coolie? what they wanted. Horrid laughter greeted him. A shot was fired. Mackenzie scrambled back into the car. A volley of bullets followed him and he fell mortally wounded. Miss Duncan, slightly wounded, seized the wheel, drove to the concession...
Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...