Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without a $300,000 guarantee it would be unable to renew its lease on the house, that the Metropolitan Opera would cease to be. Gravely the boxholders considered. Some were for disbandment. Cornelius Bliss led his associates to a decision which would have seemed revolutionary to the people who drove to the opera in broughams. He suggested that Opera in New York be made everybody's problem. From the Metropolitan Opera House, which New York's oldest families have controlled exclusively for 50 years, came an appeal for public donations...
...From the White House the President drove two miles to the Shoreham Hotel, delivered an address on taxation to 100 State legislators, drove back to the White House-all in 17 minutes...
...bail he found that electricity, gas, steam had been shut off from his plant. Then Editor Bangs's readers did for him what New York Times readers probably would not do for Adolph Ochs. Women's organizations hurried to the News plant with lanterns. Farmers drove in with gasoline pressure lamps. Friends rigged a gasoline melting pot for linotype metal. Willing, brawny arms hauled an old automobile into the plant, hitched its engine to the News press. Crowds milled around the doors to watch the first edition come out only an hour and a half late with...
...Washburn '33, captain of the skiing team, drove up to Hanover yesterday with the team, which included C. F. Angle '33, H. S. Sise '34, and C. H. Parker...
...Park used to take his test tubes of germs to bed with him to keep them warm. One of his early laboratories was in the Criminal Courts building. The judges disliked his guinea pigs, drove him out. He found a corner in a municipal disinfectant plant, eventually got a regular building and a staff, which now numbers...