Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three thousand money seekers, passing the plate to 21,000 alumni last week finished Yale's drive for $20,000,000 endowment. When the drive ended with December's end the amount was oversubscribed-just how much no one knew, as late subscriptions swept in by letter and cable...
...final drive in preparation for the first game of the season with Browne and Nichols on Saturday, the Freshman hockey team fell before the University skaters by a 4 to 1 score at the Arena yesterday...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
...disease so far is uncontrollable and almost always fatal. Last week, also, he was preparing a report on another discovery-that when a case of pernicious anemia improves, the sufferer's heart spontaneously returns to normal size. Heretofore doctors had known that anemic hearts grow large (apparently to drive the thinned blood more copiously through the body), but had never observed the lessening in size. Here again Dr. Weiss refused to believe his senses, and consulted with Dr. Bernard Sutro Oppenheimer of Manhattan, chief of Montefiore Hospital's medical service. Dr. Oppenheimer also was surprised, but confirmed...
...could drive steel like John Henry I'd go home, Baby, I'd go home. And later: This old hammer killed John Henry. Can't kill me, Baby, can't kill me. Torchlight processions of Republicans in the summer and fall of 1860 sang "Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness": Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Down in Illinois. "Man Goin' Roun' " came from Columbia, S. C. A homely, black woman sang it: There...