Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive, her almost incredible stamina. As Ethel Burkhardt, she ranked high among amateur women tennists in 1929 and 1930. She dropped out of major play for four seasons, re-emerged last summer as the wife of a Los Angeles rug salesman, to become the summer's tennis sensation...
...most Iranian aristocrats both unreasonable and silly. During Prohibition the entire corps diplomatique exercised their immunity to have liquor shipped to them in Washington. And if the envoy of the King of Kings has immunity to speed, how, Iranians asked, can Mr. Hull deduce from this an obligation to drive slowly...
...after Peace. In the U. S., brilliant, imaginative Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology, who had won the Nobel Prize for isolating and measuring the electron, sank his recorders under 280 ft. of water in California. Some rays, after fighting their way through the atmosphere, had enough drive left to reach that depth in the lake, indicating power to thrust through 25 ft. of solid lead, which was 50 times more penetration than any other known radiation...
...filled with other people's ideas. Neither has ever been to school. They are self-educated and they know everything. I don't know how they learned to read." (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934.) Last summer Mary Belle Spencer Jr was found lying unconscious beside outer Lake Shore Drive in brassiere and short at 2 a. m. Revived, she explained that she had fallen off a horse which she frequently rode in brassiere and shorts at 2 a. m. Since a lower court ordered the Spencer girls to school, their prosperous parent have sent them to fashionable Starret School...
...Harvard outfit failed to resume its co-operative teamwork, every man playing his own game for the first few minutes. Toward the end of the period the Crimson men began to close up on the Engineers, the lead teetering from one side to the other. A last minute drive climaxed by clever handling of the ball by Garth clinched the game for M.I.T...