Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...participants in yesterday's fray were evenly matched, and there were few prolonged advances. Faxon, McKinlock fullback, made the touchdown of the day on an end run after the only sustained offensive drive of the afternoon. Faxon also kicked goal...
...birthday of M. Clemenceau was not "celebrated" last week. Few Frenchmen know his birthdate, for it has been his whim to conceal it from the compilers of reference books. Instead of giving or attending a stuffy birthday dinner, M. Clemenceau observed his birthday by ordering his chauffeur to drive hi mto the village of Les Sables d'Olonne. There he bargained vociferously with the vegetable and fisherwomen for the substance of a frugal meal. Returning to Bels Ebats, he dined alone...
...Manhattan, one John A. Bosmans 32, Dutch inventor from Brooklyn, exhibited a novel gasoline engine having no connecting rods, wrist pins or crankcase, but instead, hollow pistons fastened directly to the drive shaft at their centre, propelled by two firing chambers each, one above and one below. Inventor Bosnians claimed to have refused a million for his patents; threatened to revolutionize automobiles...
...London seemed to have converged upon the Westminister bridgeheads to watch what some old birds eyed knowingly- one of those loud-droning big creatures with stiff wings that used to fly over Big Ben so often ten years ago. They saw this creature circle Parliament twice, then drive the greedy gulls out of the Thames as it descended with a last roar, a silent glide to the water...
Quacks. "Recently the wide use of physical therapeutic methods by a group of more or less illiterate healers has unfortunately brought the problem into prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...