Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state. But such a retreat was plainly under...
...Herbert L. Spencer, president since 1945, had seen the university double in size, guided it through its centenary, launched a drive intended to bring the $2,000,000 endowment to $10,000,000 and add nine handsome new buildings to the campus. Last March, however, he resigned his post to head the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, and the trustees had been combing a list of men to succeed...
...were distinguished for Yankee thrift in government and for a colorful State Council meeting held on a hunting trip in the Maine woods. Hildreth, who had abandoned politics when Margaret Chase Smith edged him out of the 1948 senatorial race, was pleased as punch with his new job, endowment drive & all. Said he: "Private institutions of learning today must be made self-supporting and operated within their budgets or face the necessity of appealing...for [government] funds...
...drive for a large-scale production process of some sort would go on, but even at best arthritis victims probably faced years of painful waiting...
Traffic Problem. In Salt Lake City, after this year's 15th escape from the State Prison Farm, somebody planted a sign on the adjacent highway: "Drive Slow, Prisoners Escaping...