Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board would fall back on the Equalization Fee, a levy collected proportionately from all the growers of a surplus crop. The fairness of this scheme has never been questioned, since when a surplus crop occurs, all who have grown the crop have contributed to the surplus and helped drive the price down. The difficulties foreseen are in determining when a surplus exists and in deciding what is a "fair price...
...instant when His Majesty was scheduled to pass. Kings, however, are too experienced to risk their lives by keeping to a time table known to every assassin. Therefore His Majesty was a good ten minutes motor ride distant when the bomb exploded. Though prudent, he is no coward. "Drive on," he said with compressed lips when told of the explosion, "Keep to the original route, through the Piazza Giulio Cesare...
With the picking of the first two boats on the University crew squad at the beginning of this week the Harvard oarsmen have started their serious drive for the later season races. Although these two crews are by no means permanent these eights will give Coach E. J. Brown '96 two crews on which to concentrate his attention in preparing for the first race of the season with...
James M. Cox Jr., Yale student, son of James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21) and defeated Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1920, drove his automobile up Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan. So rapidly did he drive, with such reckless daring, that he hit one Peter Lorenzo, a laborer, and knocked him into the air. Policemen gave chase to James M. Cox Jr., for he did not slack his pace. They fired revolvers into the air and at the fugitive. Dodging and twisting through the traffic, James Cox hurtled through Manhattan, ignoring all traffic...
...them would be "short." Then the buyers could make them "pay through the nose," as Wall Street's cruel saying describes the desperate predicament of one who sells what he does not possess. Wireless orders dashed from Manhattan to the Southern Cross's captain bidding him drive his engines to their limits of safety. The ship pushed north past the Florida keys, past Cape Hatteras, into New York Harbor-before the coffee markets closed for March...