Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeking a place where they may lay their heads. Can we say that, in this so called "new world", womanhood and childhood is more respected and more loved? I fear not. The public reads great figures telling of the number of women outraged in Smyrna, of the countless orphans driven into exile or thrown into the waters of the harbor--and what does it mean...
...scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable to think the later accounts not an imitation, but a fresh version drawn from...
...there before he let it drop. Adams never minced words, but his reasoning was usually so cogent and what he said so much to the point, that his attacks were feared as no others in his time. Hutchinson whom, as the Royal Governor of the province, 'Adams' activities had driven from office, referred to him in his report to the Crown as "of such an obstinate and inflexible disposition that no gift nor office would ever conciliate...
...profit alone when operated under a rate-making schedule which for the larger and stronger roads in the Eastern territory. If they were to charge enough to yield the statutory rate of return upon property value, the rates would be so high comparatively that many industries would be driven from New England and the general situation would become even more precarious than at present...
Word was received today that "Launch 92" which had not been heard from since leaving Cambridge, was driven into Wakefield, R. I. by the storm, but was not damaged...