Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through Oklahoma City's streets there rose from the crowd lined all along the way not cheers, not boos, but a great, cold, dead silence...
Women dashed through the streets, waving market baskets, taking part in a drive to enlist men who had failed to go to the front. At week's end came the first daytime air raid on the capital. Under orders from White Generalissimo Francisco Franco no effort was made to drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell...
...team didn't coordinate well, and was weak on fundamentals and drive throughout the game. Captain Healey stood out in the line, and Sargeant did a good job on defense, baking up the forward wall, but observers noted there is still a long way to go before the Yardlings will enter a gams as favorites...
...reach until the oar is parallel to the outermost bar of the outrigger. The legs are kept closer together with the "inside leg," that nearest the oar, drawn up between the arms. It is thus easier to make a quick, even pull-though with plenty of leg drive. The former stroke was apt to be divided into two sections, a terrific slug at the catch and a weaker finish...
Harvard had its first fire of the year last evening at 9 o'clock when a large pile of leaves blazed up in front of the main gate of Winthrop House on Memorial Drive. As usual, four of Cambridge's finest engines and about two hundred students turned out promptly...