Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove at 35. The average for the whole group was 49 m. p. h., which is 5 m. p. h. faster than the average legal state limit. Explained Safe-Driver Emmett M. Williams of Georgia, who has driven 1,000,000 miles in 28 years without accident: "I drive pretty fast. At times I've hit 90 m. p. h. I think you ought to get out of the way of folks...
...peaceful afternoon. The fox passed near them and the girl "saw him trembling with exhaustion, his belly dragging close to earth his brush bemired. His strong claws pulled him up that slope, but the lithe body, weightless two hours ago, was now too heavy. . . . Now not even death could drive his weary body faster up that hill." As the dogs killed him the lovers began to quarrel, Selma protesting against the cruelty of hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident as a beginning, I Am the Fox carefully retraces the steps in Selma s career that gave...
...dinars, the peasants learned, and in the rural Balkans that is enough to buy a needed shirt or a night's drunken carouse (35?). They had always heard that "the English Milords are all rich" and they could well believe it last week, watching King Edward & Friends drive off his chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin the first few dozen of 3,000 golf balls which His Majesty had taken along, this number being vouched for by the London Daily Mail...
...reporter for Manhattan's radical New Masses, whom he mistook for a Republican, James True announced that a general massacre of U. S. Jews had been scheduled for September. "We're not going to drive the Jews out of this country!" growled Mr. True. ''We're going to bury 'em right here...
Last week on the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, a little group of devout U. S. Anglo-Catholics gathered on Memorial Drive by the River Charles in Cambridge, Mass. There for a decade a Romanesque monastery has been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles...