Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago's "outer drive" (speedway over reclaimed lake-swamp land from North Side to South Side) will be named for Viking Leif (pronounced Life) Ericsson. Reason: he may have discovered America before Columbus; Columbus is now commonplace as thoroughfare designation; local Norwegians were active...
Said the Chicago Tribune: "Everybody speaks of it as the Outer drive. That is a good name because it is a natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are right. They do not offend by disproportion. They come naturally to the tongue. They have character. They belong to the thing. Why strain for a better name when the Outer drive is so certain the right...
...Robinson, up-and-doing Dayton druggist, in whose historic store the Scopes trial crowds spent much time and money, is president of the Bryan Memorial University Association. And in Manhattan, last week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm...
...Student Friendship Fund of the World's Student Christian Federation is a charity that has for some years appealed to American students for support. Individual drives have been conducted in most American universities every spring. This year the national drive is about to begin, with a goal of fifty thousand dollars for American students to contribute, with two thousand dollars more needed for office work and publicity expenses in this country...
...took a Ford out one morning and drove to an exam in it," the agent in one of the most popular drive it yourself establishments told a Crimson reporter. "I saw nothing of him until about dinner time. He came in and wanted to rent a car to go to Boston. After looking him over carefully I asked him if he had not taken a car out that morning. Red in the face he boat a hasty retreat in the direction of Memorial Hall, blaspheming exams in general...