Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today a drive will begin to complete this phonographic recording of the voice of each member of the class of 1939, Frederick C. Packard, Jr., '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking announced...
...never drive more than 30 m. p. h. myself but I like to know I am maintaining that speed and that everything is in order. Can you tell me why your admirably courteous motor police are under instructions never to oblige a motorist by pacing him? I have met with refusals in the States of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, although I merely asked to be paced at 30 m. p. h. The officers were polite and did not seem to know themselves the reason for their instructions. With all this talk of safety, I should think every assistance...
...links he occasionally stopped to jibe at newshawks at play. Passing their cottage where a sore-muscled group was lounging on the veranda he shouted: ''How are the cripples this morning?" and drove on roaring at his own joke. Also he took the first good afternoon to drive out to his 2,500-acre farm where he learned from Manager Otis Moore that the corn crop had been 1,300 bu., the best ever, inspected a number of new sheds built of lumber grown on the place and sawed at his own mill...
...winner's resources. Since none of the fund is to be dumped into buildings, probably ugly, but all used to hunt and develop brains, it is hoped that collections will be good and the growth of the fund gradual and continuous. There will be no ballyhoo and no drive. Graduates will be notified by letter. Non-graduates, more likely to be "well-heeled," may be interested in the new type of professors unless they have Tory hardening of the heart and believe there is overproduction of professors in evidence and Government employ. --New York Times
According to his nurse, while he was delirious he often became obsessed with the idea that his room was full of chickens and rabbits, and he made frantic attempts to drive them out. The concussion also affected his eyes, she said, and he will not be able to read until the lenses in his glasses have been readjusted...