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Word: drivingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ogden, Utah celebrated the 80th anniversary of the day California's Governor Leland Stanford helped drive a golden spike into newly laid tracks at nearby Promontory Point, thus completing the nation's first transcontinental railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Realistic Tears. Harold Wilson last week was in the thick of Britain's biggest, bravest dollar-export drive to date. At the British Industries Fair (in London's Olympia and Earl's Court arenas, and in Birmingham's Castle Bromwich), $40 million worth of goods from 3,000 busy factories were on proud display. Nothing was spared to impress thousands of foreign buyers who dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Westward Ho! for $ $ $ | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Belmont came back in the fifth, when Leigh Quinn smacked a four-bagger to drive in three men and tie the score at 4-all. The Crimson then took advantage of good base-running and a squeeze play to grab a lead and held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 B Nine Beats Belmont by 11-8 | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...Samuel V. K. Willson '50, of Eliot House, is directing the music and is the only non-Winthrop male in the production. The show marks Winthrop's debut in musical comedy, and is expected to be the first in a series. Excess profits will go to the Displaced Persons drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Annex In 'Trial by Jury' Debut Tomorrow | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...oval wheels are hitched together in pairs, two of them replacing each drive wheel of a vehicle. Between their hubs is a longitudinal bar. The real axle is pivoted on the bar's center. The wheels are geared together in such a way that one of them is always on end when the other is on its side. As the wheels revolve, the bar moves like a seesaw. Its center, carrying the axle, does not move up or down, so the vehicle can ride as smoothly as if it had round wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flip-Flop | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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