Word: driving
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whom the world beyond the horizon was mystery, should long to be out and away. Miss Wilkins would probably have allowed the girl to be a sufficient excuse to make the boy settle contentedly into the monotonous existence of caring for the light-houses. Mr. Rideout has her drive him away, knowing that when he had made a place for himself he would call her, loving her for her sacrifice, and needing her for her illuminating knowledge of himself. These are real people. Some day we shall meet them, or at least their near of kin, on the highways...
...four o'clock and headed up-stream. In the absence of Lunt, Coach Wray went in at number four, so that the order of the other crews might not be broken. Moral at stroke, having replaced Sargent on Monday, pulls an excellent oar, getting a longer reach and harder drive at the finish. Waid who was taken from the second crew and put in at five in the first, rows in good form, and gets a good deal of power into each stroke...
...chance, however, for the real humorist of the automobile to show us the conflict between the irate pedestrian and horseman who madly curses all drivers of cars as predatory rich and as pirates, and the wild honk-honk man who whirls from the highway all who do not drive sixty-horse power machines... The punctured tire, the wayside repairs before a humerous audience, the superior man who gives advice, and all the other things of which an automobilist dreams are left untouched; perhaps we may get, a sufficient compensation in the really humorous picture of Pegasus up to date, provided...
...editors are to be congratulated for dropping the antique but not antic, "By the Way." Their gallantry is not, however, to be commended for "The Development of a Boston Girl," and they should look out for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children if they drive any more jaded candidates to further efforts such as the alleged editorials...
...many false reports by missionaries and others who have penetrated only the Lower Congo to the effect that they do not exist. Mr. Clark showed that the contention of Leopold that the exactions of tribute on the natives is for public improvements, is absurd. His sole aim is to drive the natives to their limit in gathering India rubber for his consumption, and the instances of cruelty on the part of soldiers to gain this end are barbarous beyond belief. Not only are their bodies mutilated, but they are frequently killed and eaten by the native soldiers in the employ...