Word: drove
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...also born stubborn, so he quit the farm and ended up tinkering with a gasoline contraption in a red brick shed back of his house in Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years later, aged 40, he organized the Ford Motor Co., with eleven stockholders...
...modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians drove their four-in-hands around the boulevards at a civilized ten kilometers an hour. That was happiness. Are we to thank M. Ford...
Bathed, dressed and breakfasted (bacon & eggs), he climbed into his black Cadillac and drove to the palace. The week promptly fell into its usual complicated pattern. Some highlights...
...drove to a Morelos seed-corn farm to learn about the war on corn pests...
Competition with other College musical organizations, however, soon drove the band out of the concert business, and subsequent sporadic attempts to introduce classical scores to the bandstand met little interest until this year when Malcolm H. Holmes '28, present conductor, and another veteran-heavy group of musicians took the plunge...