Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burns oil, and her boilers furnish steam to two 15,000-horsepower electro-turbines. Her four propellers are driven by as many 8,000-horsepower motors, giving her a speed of 21 knots...
These highly geared mysteries are driven somewhat to the twelve-year- old credulity limit by a cast of unskilled laborers...
...pivot of her mother's consciousness, driven a trifle off center by the disasters in the family, revolves about her daughter. Overpowering possessive selfishness sets her to keep Jane to herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which...
False Economy. Professors are not paid enough. Besides the bad results which everyone now realizes, there is also this: professors' wives are cut off from contact with the students and the intellectual life of the university; they are driven to frivolity, intrigue...
...matches hundreds of yards away. Telephone cables were laid low, most of the business signboards were smashed to splinters or blown away, many houses were unroofed. In the harbor the typhoon lashed the waters into a white fury. Many ships, including a British submarine, were sunk and many more driven ashore more or less damaged...