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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Blood & Ballots | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Drive. He had not found it easy to study the writings of today's educators; most of them, says he, "sound as if they had been badly translated from the German." But out of them had emerged a picture in which Mortimer Smith found almost nothing he liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Growth Toward What? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Twenty per cent of the money gained in the drive goes automatically to the Council, unless students specify a different distribution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Charities Open Intensive Drive Tonight | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

During the past three years Harvard undergraduates have sent food, books, and clothing to students abroad. However, this year, by special WSSF request all funds gained in the current drive will go to aid the Universities of Pakistan, and Bombay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WSSF Tries to 'Restore' Lives of World's Students | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...years ago WSSF conducted a charities drive of its own in the College, and netted approximately $18,000. Last year it was one of the charities entered in the combined campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WSSF Tries to 'Restore' Lives of World's Students | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

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