Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lustily, triumphantly. The barometer was 27.75 (lowest ever recorded in the U. S.). Pelicans, gulls, petrels, royal terns swept in helplessly, crazily, were dashed against walls into broken lumps. The waters of the ocean on one side and of the Bay of Biscayne on the other swept over Bayshore Drive, met. People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass...
...dale, over muddy country roads and terrible cobbled pavements, the King drove. Frequently he sent the car along faster than 70 miles an hour to make up for time lost on the worst stretches. When the King reached Tolosa, he entered upon the mountain passes, a nerve racking drive even in full daylight. But there was not even moonlight for the royal driver as heavy clouds obscured the sky and at Burgos, across the mountains, heavy rains greeted...
...bandit leader twirled his revolver. "I, me, myself," he said, "will shoot the whole lot of you if you do not drive at once to Cuernavaca and give this note to the military commandant there. It is a short note. It reads: 'If we are pursued we will shoot our prisoner...
...answer probably lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that we didn't after all want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...
With the closing of the period of registration at 5 o'clock this afternoon the one financial drive of the present college year will have been completed. The innovation in the method of collecting money for the class, the Phillips Brooks House Association, Student Council, and other expenses, philanthropic and otherwise, was brought into effect last Thursday when the incoming Freshmen were required to register...