Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred by a woman striker seriously injured by this motor onslaught...
Followed a rapid drive through the streets to Chapultepec Castle. General Calles, still in his war clothes-a big felt hat and tan suede "windbreaker"-looked tired but happy. At Chapultepec Castle he remained in secret conference with the President for some time, then motored to his own home...
Rushing down and against her went the mistral, the draft which comes from France's coolish central plateau and ends over the warmish Mediterranean. The Graf Zeppelin bucked the mistral. The wind tossed and whirled the ship. A fourth engine went dead. Only one remained to drive her and that was not enough. Commander Eckener headed her south and floated with the wind...
...patents now are obtainable on diesels or their modifications, for plane-power or other drive.* Several manufacturers have been experimenting with diesel modifications for aircraft. Some of their representatives were at Langley Field last week, attending the fourth annual Engineering Research Conference conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (initiated by President Wilson). It was to astonish their peers that Packard Engineers Woolson and Lees had flown the 650 wind-jostled miles from Detroit. It was to frustrate competitive inquisitiveness that they hooded their motor...
...Green started a comeback in the fourth, a fielder's choice, a triple by Walsh, Indian third baseman, and a passed ball sending two markers over the rubber. After a scoreless fifth, the Dartmouth diamond forces went into a one-run lead. Two hits and Stokes' four-ply drive, coupled with some errors, gave the visitors a 5 to 4 advantage...