Word: droves
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...choice in his invited guests, yet drove his housemaids to despair by insisting on the admittance of the poorest children in Cambridge to tramp through his study daily or to sit triumphantly in the chair which their little subscriptions had bought for him. This was the man whom we meet to commemorate: this was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once the tide had turned, each new mistake of the Court augmented the public exasperation; and, after the fall of the Bastile, the infuriated mob, breaking into the palace of Versailles, attempted the murder of the queen, and drove the royal family to Paris...
...Saturday morning Prince Sadanaru Fushimi, the representative of Japan to President Roosevelt and the St. Louis Exposition, visited the University as the guest of President Eliot. The Prince and his party, accompanied by Judge F. C. Lowell and Mr. J. D. Greene, drove from Boston to University Hall where they were greeted by O. Matsukata '06, and were received by President Eliot in the Faculty Room. The party then visited the Law School, Memorial Hall and other University buildings, after which the Prince drove to President Eliot's house and returned the call made by the President on Friday afternoon...
...aggregate of twelve hits would seem to indicate consistently heavy hitting, but Charles, the Carlisle pitcher, was undoubtedly one of the least effective men whom the nine has faced this year. Several times, however, opportune hits were made.--notably in the fifth when Matthews drove a three-base hit to centre field with three men on bases; and in the eighth when Bolton brought in the last three runs with a long home run hit. The general listlessness of the team was furthermore explemplified by the slowness of the batters in getting to the plate in their turns...
...Chick '05, 1 up. The match was closely contested and was a tie after the sixteenth hole. The seventeenth was halved in four, and Egan won the eighteenth and deciding hole in four to seven. The total number of strokes of both men was 82. Both players drove off well, but Egan was slightly inferior to Chick in approaching. Chick, however, was very weak on the putting green and it was chiefly this weakness which lost him the match...