Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Germany, the Judge's decision was used as fodder for stupendous bombardment by the cannons of Republicanism and Monarchism, the latter openly declaring that they would use it in a drive to force the President out of office and restore the Monarchy...
...does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes between the showings of pictures at big cinema theatres in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and countless other U. S. cities, grandiose compounds of scenery, soft lights, dancing, singing, are presented. These purpose to drive home the atmosphere of the feature picture. Hero and heroine, in the film, come together at last in a canoe; in the "presentation," a baritone sings Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep with a lighthouse for backdrop. The film shows how a young society miss singes her wings; in the presentation...
Harvard has had no difficulty in raising funds for things it really wanted. While starving the Workshop it raised more than $30,000,000, including its recent ten-million-dollar drive, from which six millions were pledged to the business school but not a cent to the drama. This drive blocked the effort which Mr. Baker's friends wished to make to raise money for a college theatre workshop, and thus he was given as plainly as possible to understand that though the Harvard officials were anxious to teach advertising and accounting they took no serious interest in the development...
...merits of Professor Baker's case, who has presumed to turn down without discussion his requests for funds, his pleas for equipment, even his offers to raise funds himself for his work? Who, at the time when the apportionment of the $10,000,000 was made in the recent drive, was guilty of not even mentioning Professor Baker's requests to the Overseers...
Such evidence of character cannot go by unnoticed the wit and cheer they spread in most trying circumstances. They had to drive their Ford coupe to Cambridge that night and, to be frank with you, Mr. Editor, I have been worried and concerned to know whether they reached home safely without mishap, and did not take pneumonia. I also hope no trouble came to them over their bottle. John A. C. Stevenson, Yale...