Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock one morning fortnight ago a man in a black Dodge sedan drove up to the Warner-Quinlan filling station on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue at 127th Street. Day Manager Walter Lyle filled his tank with five gallons of gasoline worth 98?. The man gave him a $10 gold certificate...
...said his customer. "I've got a hundred of them left at home." He took his change and drove...
Back to her comfortable little Huis Ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") drove gloomy Queen Wilhelmina, having made no mention of the one bit of news all Holland is waiting for: the engagement of apple-cheeked Crown Princess Juliana to Prince Bertil, third son of Sweden's Crown Prince...
...tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown the red-hot blast furnaces. The explosion killed a score, injured...
Dizzy Dean, elder of the two pitching Dean brothers, pitched the Cards to victory today over the Pirates, allowing the latter six scattered hits. It was his 28th victory of the season. Pittsburgh's tallies came in the ninth when Arky Vaughan drove out a home run with Paul Waner aboard...