Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, here's how Madar scouted Dartmouth against Penn last October 2. Around 10 o'clock on the Friday before the game, he drove from his Brookline home to the Indoor Athletic Building (where the Columbia game rally had taken place a few hours earlier) and then took the subway to South Station. Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green...
...Harry, Bess and Margaret Truman drove down to the station through the quiet streets of Independence. Most of the neighbors were still sleeping late after a hard night's celebration. But Harry Truman was ruddy-faced, fresh and rested...
...sales. Standard Brands showed a profit of only $787,519, a drop of 49%. With sales slipping, five out of eleven makers of electric appliances reported declines ranging from 2% (for Noma Electric) to 43% (for Bendix Home Appliances). Truckmakers Diamond T and Autocar slipped badly and Reo Motors drove into...
...Harvard professor to utter what is certainly the greatest campaign monstrosity that has reached my cars. His name is Warren Abner Seavey, he is the Bussey Professor of Law, and he was speaking for Dewey at the Law School Forum Friday evening. "Perhaps," he suggested, "the man who drove the gangsters from New York may be able to drive the gangsters from the Kremlin...
...General Foods had owned enough rye to scare the daylights out of Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc., the world's biggest grain trader. Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye free of duty...