Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficiency resenting the thought of culture and broader horizons. As the Freshman wanders about the historic buildings inside and out, as he contemplates the multitude of new demands to be made upon his time, as he analyzes his companions, and passes learned professors in the yard, his humility may drive him to his interests already established and further into himself; or on the other hand, his pretended superiority may settle into an insulation against all that is best in Harvard. Don't let it happen...
...heed speed restrictiions, that some drivers are capable of proceeding safely at greater speed than others, last week the. law passed by the last session of the Michigan State legislature went into effect, permitting travel over Michigan roads outside of city limits at any velocity.- Yet "No person shall drive any vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than will permit him to bring it to a stop within the assured clear distance ahead...
...single game to the British. Two years later international polo really started when a team headed by Foxhall Keene of Philadelphia was formally exported, won the first game and lost the next two. Soon Harry Payne Whitney took a hand. This famed sportsman opened a thor- ough preparatory drive to beat Britain, selected his team, schooled his ponies over a period of years. In 1909 the "Big Four," Whitney, Monty and Larry Waterbury, and Milburn, sailed for England and drubbed Britain, in two straight games. Since then there have been five challenges, and four of them have been...
...potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai - beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights...
Arthur Potter is a wader, diver, gambler. He earns his living wading and diving for golf balls that inefficient golfers plop into water hazards at the Marine & Field Club, Brooklyn. He picks up dollars from unsuspecting golfers passing by, by suggesting that he can drive a certain narrow green nearly 300 yards away. Unsuspecting golfers doubt it. "Betcha," says Gambler Potter. "Betcha," answer unsuspecting, greedy golfers. Potter drives the green...