Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought his first ship in 1889 Owen Cosby Philipps, now Lord Kylsant, has pioneered in everything that would get ships faster across the damp places and keep their human cargoes warm and dry, and their cargoes of foodstuffs dry and cold. He pushed the adoption of a twin propeller drive. He was ahead with refrigerator cargo ships, reaping millions from frozen Argentine beef. All his life he could have said with Kipling's shipmaster of his competitors: They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, And I left 'em sweating and stealing...
...Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, preoccupied as he is with the affairs of Boston. Finally not His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, pious, harmoniously resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look to him who sits on the seat of Cardinal Gibbons? It is His Grace the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, a Roosevelt rather than a Wilson. But in Francis Clement Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma, Okla., Rome has found far more than an able scrivener...
...What is to become of a small-town Wisconsin man who, having escaped once into the great world, visits home and is trapped there for the rest of his life by a childhood sweetheart and a deathbed promise to his epileptic father? Miss Gale's answer: his suppressions may drive him insane?that is, up or down the scale of sanity?especially if, having succumbed hastily to the sweetheart, he falls in love with a woman of the world when it is just too late; a woman who waits for him and writes to him for years after...
...Harvard Law Library has no equal in breadth of scope in the world, its only possible rival, the Congressional Library, having a less complete collection of books of Anglo-American, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, German and South American law. It is expected that the Endowment Fund Drive recently launched by Dean Roscoe Pound will permit yet more expansion and specialization within the Library...
Hollis--The Cradle Snatchers. 8.20 o'clock--A, warning to young boys that there's money in necking Amusing drive...