Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumored that Maréchal Pétain, copying the strategy employed by Foch in his final drive against the Germans in 1918, had been concentrating his forces first at one point and then at another, and was now about to consolidate the points of vantage in a final drive upon the heights of Bribane, which would sweep on until Abd-el-Krim surrendered...
...fabricating a ludicrous story of his attempts to turn off an electric light hinged on a closet door. Young Gunn played the famed Jess Sweetser. His 27 holes were in 2 strokes under par; his approach work was sharpshooting, his putts were as accurate as target pistol-shots, his drive was a cannonade. He beat the onetime amateur champion 10 up and 9 to go. Next day he defeated Richard A. Jones Jr. of Manhattan, 5 and 3; Robert Tyre Jones put out George Von Elm of Los Angeles. Gunn and his friend from Atlanta would meet in the finals...
Continued isostasy, none the less, will some day belt the Earth with glaciers, drive civilization to the Poles.?Prof. W. A. Parkes, Toronto, Canada...
Abdel-Krim professed confidence, but the waiting must have worn on his patience. Perhaps he gnawed his fingernails. Everyone knew that the French and their Spanish allies would soon make a concerted drive, yet seven days passed with out its developing...
...that his instant reaction to an outrageous crime was sorrow for the criminals? Various comments to some such effect were; made by his friends, but strangest of all was one supplied by an item printed in his paper just before his body exchanged its pleasant room on Lake Shore Drive for the suburban field where it will rest forever?an item that revealed something of the terrifying diversity, the proximities, the contrasts, of the human spectacle which had been so long and so intimately under the observation of Victor Lawson. The item, a very inconspicuous one, spoke of another burial...