Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the attention of the world is fixed on Genoa and its diplomatic contests, China is undergoing a political upheaval which may substantially change the situation in the Far East. The center of the storm is the Manchurian General, Chang Tso-Lin, who has just seized Pekin and Tientsin, driven out his rivals and practically gained control of Central as well as Northern China...
...last he has come into full control of the capital city and has driven Wu Pei-Fa southward. Accordingly the question of his next step arises. Will he exploit China for the advantage of his own pocket, already bulging with a two million dollar income, or will he seek only the unification and development of his country, as he promises, so that it may become the united nation which alone is capable, in his opinion, of settling the problems of the Far East...
Middlebury College opened their season Monday with a defeat at the hands of Boston College, 14-0; Tufts also proved more than a match, winning yesterday, 25-2, in a five-inning game. Houlihan, the Vermont team's star hurler will start against the Crimson today. Although driven from the box on Monday under a hot fusillade of hits, Houlihan, won a reputation last season by his strike-outs and may possibly get back in his old-time form today. This afternoon's game will be the third of six which the Middlebury team is playing on its trip through...
...practice of borrowing on uncertain future earnings," he went on, "combined with the financial strain of the Great War, has driven the railroads into bankruptcy". Mr. Plumb then demonstrated that the railroads are a mirror of the condition of industry in general at the present time...
College men have managed our dog teams for the doctors in winter, and herded reindeer and driven them and broken them in. College men from Canada and as far west as California have helped run launches and keep them in going order and fetched in patients and carried around supplies. They have surveyed country for us, and helped to map and chart and make possible some of our fjords for tourists to visit us. They have worked out our geology and other natural sciences and helped to publish information and record facts. For the last two years they...