Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiddler John Wilder, 81, uncle of the President, came bustling up the White House drive at 6:45 a. m. The Coolidges entertained him with breakfast...
...heard Bryan for more than two hours on the silver question. I discovered that one could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape a fact or a sound statement...
...campaign to introduce modern agricultural methods. It means developing roads and inter-island communications to such a point that the peoples of the remote islands can ship their produce with regularity. It means clearing virgin lands and establishing plantations. It means perfecting the school system and making an earnest drive to prepare the people--all of the people, and not only a small class of Chinese and Spanish half-castes--for self-government...
...Phillips Brooks House will reopen its fall clothing drive today in an attempt to increase the insufficient harvest yielded last week. There is a greater demand upon the social service department for discarded garments than ever previously, and the failure of the first collection campaign to reach the quota has made an unprecedented situation...
...Lloyd '28, who is in charge of the drive, attributed the scarcity of the sartorial crop to local interest in the football season. It is supposed that many undergraduates were saving old hats and kindred impedimenta for the prosecution of the touchball season and for the finish of the New Haven encounter. Now that the Yale game is over, the economy program should be relaxed and the 125 canvassers on the Phillips Brooks field force will be launched anew with higher hopes for success...