Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crews have been national college champions six times, took Olympic titles in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Last week, attired in his traditional battered hat, stubby (5 ft. 6 in.) Ky Ebright was still bustling around the California boathouse on the Oakland Estuary, roaring instructions and encouragement as he drove his oarsmen through his last season...
...fastest automobile race ever run, Miami's Jim Rathmann drove his Simoniz Special around the steep-banked, 2½-mile track of the new Daytona International Speedway at an average speed of 170.261 m.p.h. to win the 100-mile U.S. Automobile Club championship race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control...
Flames tore from the hearth to the library to the Apparatus Chamber and in minutes the whole building was a heap of ruins. The Massachusetts Gazette of Feb. 2 reported that Stoughton and Massachusetts Halls were in great danger as the wind drove cinders on the roofs of both buildings. Also the "new and beautiful" Hollis Hall dedicated just days earlier, narrowly escaped although it was windward. The Gazette called the blaze "the most ruinous the College ever met since its foundation...
Several co-workers remembered that Miss Canty had given a series of "moderately wild" parties for graduate students and persons working in the Geological Department. She drove a battered car worth around $200 to work and dressed "on the poor side of average." Because of this, they said, there was some speculation as to where she got the money for the parties; but no one seriously suspected anything at the time...
...become a missionary of one kind or another. The grandson of a Mormon who sired 30 children by four wives, he was born into a monogamous family in Colonia Dublan, Mexico, where Mormons from the Southwest had settled 20 years earlier. When George was five, Pancho Villa drove the U.S.-born Mormons out of Mexico, and the family went to Los Angeles. In kindergarten, children taunted him mercilessly with the sneering cry "Mexican!" Said George one day: "Look, if a kitten was born in a garage, would that make it an automobile?'' The logic was overpowering; the kids...