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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, Dictator Mussolini could get at best only minor satisfactions last week from his Spanish allies. The gains of the "Chamberlain Drive" in the north were balanced by losses due to the "Anti-Chamberlain" offensive in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Chamberlain Offensive | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...inaugurated a new program of cooperation between the University and its immediate territorial neighbors. This was the first of a series of speeches to be made by members of Harvard's public-speaking classes to various high school, church, and teachers groups in behalf of the current Community Fund drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC PUBLIC SPEAKING | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

With $9500 already banked, the Harvard Committee for German Refugees will wind up its drive for funds by sending out an appeal to the Alumni," said Phillip Ragby, Secretary last evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee Organizes Intercollegiate Cooperation | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

Mitchell's Christian Singers all grew up in Kinston, where two drive trucks, one is a carpenter and one a tobacco-factory hand. Being good friends, they gradually drifted into the habit of singing together in the evenings after work. Being musically illiterate, they invented their own songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals to Swing | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...date was published last fortnight.* Born in 1843, while Norway was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden, Composer Grieg spent his student days in Germany, where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even the Central Europeans admitted he was good, placed a bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nationalist | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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