Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd George: "Such a tax would drive the British people away from established betting firms and into the most pernicious form of gambling: street betting with itinerant 'bookies...
...strong hurling corps to pull them through to victory. The home nine expects to have little trouble in keeping the light-hitting Crimson outfit from scoring, and is confident that such swatters as Fields and Tremper, in spite of Harvard's recent shut-outs, will be able to drive enough runs across the platter to assure the Quaker lads the first game of the series...
...subsequent round of travel exposed me to master-pieces of red tape. Only after being shunted around from Church Street to Lehman Hall, and from there back to two garages on Church Street, ore of which had to sign the release for the other, was I finally permitted to drive away the miscreant automobile for the nominal sum of $3.35. Everyone connected with this larceny assured me that the money goes entirely to the garage which towed the Ford three blocks, and the garage which kept in its back yard overnight...
Howard Elliott, president of the Harvard Overseers and of the lately-created Harvard Fund Council-not a "drive" organization but a permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...taken for granted when the clothing drive was instituted, that the articles given to it would be those for which the giver no longer had any use. In the donation to the cause of the Near East Relief of two Bibles in excellent condition and scarcely to be differentiated from new ones it would seem that the growing accusation of irreligion in the University has been substantiated. Or were they given on purely altruistic principles...