Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipating intensive study during the coming months would do well to avail themselves of two dollars and fifty cents' worth of as exciting and diverting relaxation as they are likely to find in contemporary literature. "Riding the Mustang Trail," the narrative of a four-hundred-mile "trail drive" of a large herd of wild mustangs from the Mescalero country of New Mexico to a shipping point in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, is a saga proving beyond all doubt that there still is a West, in the realest sense of the term, that it is still full of pitfalls, even...
...slip of his smooth tongue, Louisiana's Long blamed the repeal drive on the "bluted plotocracy." Up rose Maryland's Tydings to ask: "Since the Senator is so frank, what did he make last year?" "And what did he do with it?" put in West Virginia's Neely...
...Colonel in the Illinois National Guard, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy listing debts of $532,874. His only tangible assets: $300 worth of military equipment and uniforms. With his family of three Son Charles, whose brokerage business was suspended in 1931, lives with Papa Dawes on Lake Shore Drive...
...prolific in its issuance of "extras," take up their blatant, blathering cry that is so illustrative of the possibilities of distortion of "the King's English." Over and over and over, they blast out their unreliable headlines; over and over and over, until the monotony and noise would drive the most concentrative scholastic to utter distraction. And this continues for two hours or more...
Dunster House is an architectural and gastric unit. Built far down Memorial Drive, it was placed by an ingenious plan in a triangular plot bounded on one side by the beautiful blue Charles, and on the two back sides by Cambridge tenements. Dunster is not like Lowell, in the center of things. In fact, connections with the Administration have enabled the House to secure two P.W.A. excavations that have increased its geographical isolation. Dunster has steadily become more a center in itself, and of all the Houses, has the greatest reputation for self-sufficient smugness...