Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Front No. 2. From there down past Teruel, rocky hills and easily defended passes make actual trenches unnecessary, but the strong points here are well built, well defended, so much so that neutral observers agree that Generalissimo Franco's old scheme, to drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such...
...formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...
...reformers. If Mr. Douglas does not make Wall Street dance to his cat-o'-nine-tails, they will soon turn upon him as bitterly as they did on Chairman Landis, making his public life a burden to him. Both sides will attempt to circumvent him by intrigue, to drive him before them by direct assault. He is fortunate in having the temperament of a man who goes his own way, but anyway he treads will be paved with thorns...
...come at night; most of them occur when the students involved are coming to or from some party or social affair; and in many of the cases the driver has been drinking. This does not mean anyone in the car was drunk. Tests have conclusively proved that when you drive at night, because you are more tired, your reactions are slower. And when you add that to a couple of drinks, even if only beer, a driver will take up to three and four times as long to respond to an emergency as under normal driving conditions...
Since, apparently, students like other people will not learn their lesson and drive slower at night when they're tired, keep they're hands off the wheel when they've been drinking, the simplest way out might appear to be to keep them from driving. That's what happened at Princeton after a whole series of crashes had so shocked the Nassau authorities that they removed the student's driving permission...