Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage official to give the signal for the curtain or the descent of the dove or the collapse of the temple. The amount of work done, especially by the men who coach the singers, lead the orchestra and direct the details of production, is enormous, and they are driven with precision and discipline that, with all the air of ease around the opera house, is nerve racking. That is how the 169 performances of 40 operas in 23 weeks is possible...
President Ebert, answering a telegram from Trier demanding relief, alludes to " the new German atrocity of the French military forces against women and children who are driven from their homes by African soldiery...
Conan Doyle was driven away from Christianity by the miracles. He now returns to Christianity by the miracles, explaining the Transfiguration, the walking on the water, and the resurrection of Jesus in the same manner in which he explains his "spirit photographs." These photographs, taken by a medium, show "ectoplasmic hands" and " estoplas-mic personalities" appearing in the midst of a crowd praying at the Cenotaph which London erected to its war dead. Conan Doyle says that Moses and Elijah appeared in the Transfiguration as such " estoplasmic personalities"; that "estoplasmic hands" could sustain Jesus as he walked on the water...
...except his understanding of currents and his "feel" of the air. Without the knowledge gained by machine-propelled planes he could never have made such progress; but, since he has this knowledge--and it is increasing every day--the future of the glider bids fair to eclipse the motor-driven plane for private use in the future...
...Allies are in perfect accord with one another, but are keeping their weather-eye skinned for signs of Turkish double dealing. Possibly they have in mind the Treaty of London, May 30, 1913, in which Turkey- in-Europe was driven east of a line drawn from Enos (on the Aegean Sea) to Midia (on the Black Sea). When a commission of the Powers arrived to delimit the boundary, the Turks said: " Ah! We agreed to a line between Enos and Midia, but a curved line to take in Adrianople! " And they won their point...