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Word: drivingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drive This Year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Will Swap Tickets; Bingham Reports on H A A | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

Also at last night's meeting the representatives voted to hold only one Combined Charities drive this year, with a goal of ten dollars per student, rather than the two separate drives at five dollars each which were provided for in legislation passed last spring on the motion of Frederick D. Houghteling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Will Swap Tickets; Bingham Reports on H A A | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

Next day, in the game that would decide everything, DiMaggio lashed out a triple and lasted into the ninth inning. When he was too weak to run after a long drive, he took himself out of the game. But by that time the Yankees had built up enough of a lead. Despite a last-minute Red Sox rally, they won the game (5-3) and their 16th pennant. Said Manager Casey Stengel: "The greatest thrill of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fantastic Finish | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Hollywood still had something to worry about. Income from foreign box offices would suffer from devaluation of the pound. MGM's Louis B. Mayer estimated dourly that his studio's overall receipts would be cut by nearly 10%. He ordered a new economy drive, but, for the time being at least, M-G-M and the other major studios hoped to get along without any layoffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ups & Downs | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...some market thieves, avenges a robbery of his father, sells his apples at a profit and gets the girl. The movie makes no pretentions to anything but entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight. After breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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