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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Barbee's two victories give him an average of 887, with eight games won and one lost. The lone loss charged against the Junior twirler was the first engagement with Georgetown at Washington, when he, as relief pitcher, allowed a pinch-hitter to drive in the winning run of a 7 to 6 contest. The four-hit shutout of last week avenged this stain on his record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tight Pitching and Fielding Raise Nine's Defensive Average--Batting Marks Fall--Pitchers Hurl Shutouts | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

...annual Phillips Brooks House drive for text books opens today in all the dormitories of the University, when the collectors who have been appointed will begin a canvass of all the rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. Starts Drive | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

...airplane after only 20 minutes' instruction." But Miss Davis had performed no astounding feat-considering the fact that she simply manipulated one set of controls of a dual-controlled plane, 1,000 feet above the ground. She was as safe as a person learning to drive a new Ford on a wide, straight concrete highway in the absence of traffic. If she had attempted to take the plane off the ground or land it, then she might well have encountered difficulties. It is on the earth or near it that green pilots have most of their accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: How to Fly | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...Gold Coast Orchestra, and by Hal Kemp and his North Carolinians. One will play in the Smith Halls dining room and the other in the common room. Parking regulations as announced by the members of the Jubilee Committee last night stated that no cars would be allowed in the drive way in the front of Smith and Standish Halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUBILEE TO MARK CLIMAX OF FRESHMAN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

...managing director of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (A. B. C.), the organization that verifies a publisher's statement of his net paid circulation. Said Mr. Harn: "Don't be afraid to buy smaller circulation if the indications are it has the right kind of patrons. To drive for larger and larger circulations is only loading you up with a burden of your own creation. Publishers do not want to perpetrate this uneconomic thing of inflated circulations, but you force them to do it when they find you select your list of newspapers solely on the factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertisers | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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