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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...spread to Manchuria, last week,-a development of gravest international consequence, since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Powers on the Alert | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

After the celebration, Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, announced hat he would give $320,000 to Andover and $320,000 to Exeter for their endowment funds, provided that Exeter would complete its drive for $1,600,000 by July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Andover | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Howard Whitmore '29 held the champions of the Orient to five hits, only one of which, a long drive by Migatake along the right field foul line, was an extra base clout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WINS FROM KEIO | 5/23/1928 | See Source »

...Helen Wills-Scribners ($2.50). Champion Wills' game misses monotony by the power and deadly accuracy of her one great stroke. Failing the power, Author Wills' book is deadly in its repetitious monotony. A little editing would have cut from page 15 the description of her first forehand drive described in almost the same one-syllable words on page 5, or from pages 8, 25, 108, the repeated precept of playing only two sets at a time and stopping though keen to go on to the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Poker Face | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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