Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl watching the dancers was beautiful but pale. Two young men introduced themselves, danced with her. found her hands cold and clammy. They gave her wine, but she spilled it on her white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months...
...fact, Harvard officials have never in the past evinced any active desire to fight or mitigate the vice which exists in the Square. Their attitude has rather been curiously apathetic, a halting disapproval which has never been vigorous enough to drive them to organized warfare. This apathy has naturally enervated any other groups with vested interests in the problem. Just how the administrative officers have been able to lull themselves into such a pleasant slumber is an interesting question...
...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
Buckley's "money" hitting featured the game. He came across in the eighth with a long triple to the Stadium wall in deep left to drive in two badly needed runs, and smashed in the game-winning marker with a high-powered line single to center. Finegan's triple to left started the crucial ninth inning rally...
Professor C. H. Haring, Master's Residence, 935 Memorial Drive: Thurs., 3-4 o'clock...