Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such preference. In fact, as the season draws to a close, all indications point to a Harvard victory in this 35th series. Yale still has the game with Brown this evening, but the Bulldog should come through that scrimmage with no gain and perhaps an injury. Harvard easily drove the Bear back into its den to the tune of 7-2 although Coach Joe Stubbs had several of the Varsity men stay at home rather than tire them...
...Georgetown University law books. Sniffing smoke, he looked out the window of his second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they had left upstairs. In the house nearby Senator Schall, with wife and daughter, awoke, sat tight. The lodge burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called...
...liking to say yes, unable to say no, Japan's blunt No. 1 war dog barked that when Japanese troops invaded Manchuria, drove out "Young Marshal" Chang's Government and opened his abandoned steel safe they did find therein a receipt for 500,000 yuan signed by "two Japanese." The two names General Hayashi refused to reveal...
...little colony that voluntarily accompanied their fallen Emperor into exile on a far-off island in the South Atlantic soon found that St. Helena's was a poor climate for noble sentiments. Though their English captors attempted, in their way, to be humane, their blundering tactlessness soon drove the exiles to a frenzy of outraged sensibility. Napoleon's honor was touchy, and Sir Hudson Lowe, the British Governor, was a choleric, literal-minded martinet. The French and their warders were at loggerheads from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience...
With Road of Ages Author Nathan hits a wholly serious, grave note even though he is still technically engaged in writing fantasy. The book's title refers to the path to exile which the Jew has trod in many ages, from the time Edward I drove him out of England down to the latest edict of Realmleader Hitler. When Mr. Nathan picks up the thread of this millennial-long Diaspora, every country on the face of the earth, with the single exception of Mongolia, has ordered the Jews into banishment. Readers first meet the race in Road of Ages...