Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steamship skippers, like horsemen and motorists sensitive to what they drive, say that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines...
...winning the 600-yard run in one minute 16 and four-fifths seconds, came Haggerty's record breaking performance in the 1000-yard run, which he navigated in two minutes 20 and two-fifths seconds. He repeated in the mile run scoring a well-planned vcitory Watters beautiful drive into second place in the 1000-yard run was no less remarkable. Captain Tibbetts ran a beautifully timed two mile race, Luttman of Harvard coming in second, and Pond of Cornell third. The time was ten minutes and four-fifths seconds...
...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...
...early 80's and thrived thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...
...contradiction suggested in such simultaneity of effort is more respectable that real. Each fund may have a real raison d'etre. The evident informal nature of the Manhattan drive makes it admirably adapted for amateur producers and actors. The Hampdens and Arlisses can depart taking the taint of professionalism with them...