Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fundamentally the warfare between Associated Press, Hearst's International News, and Scripps-Howard's Acme should be three-cornered. But last spring AP drove the other two into a defensive alliance by announcing plans for a $1,000,000-a-year telephoto system which would flash all the day's newspictures to all the AP's clients within a few minutes of their taking (TIME, May 7). A few clients have already begun to install equipment, but no date has been set for starting the service. Meanwhile Acme and International have been working hand in glove...
...morning of the 16th at midnight the whole packing party, plus Washburn and Holcombe, started from the high camp and by 8 o'clock they had reached the base of the 1000 foot cliff which the party scaled last year. At this point a two-day snow storm drove the party back and kept them in the high camp until the morning of the nineteenth. They left, however, before turning back at the foot of the cliff, crampons, rope, and other climbing supplies to be used as soon as the storm broke. It cleared the night of the 18th...
...Dartmouth College opened today, President Hopkins drove home a lesson in educational conservatism taught by a country where one might least expect it--Soviet Russia. Mr. Hopkins was speaking to his students of the great clamor recently heard in America against the disclipinary requirements of our college curricula. Much criticism has been voiced, he said, against all those subjects which call for painstaking study and mastery of exact factual data. The labor of learning foreign languages, for example, has been under fire, on the ground that it is not worth the trouble. The whole system of giving "marks" or grades...
...mist drove away the fear that the Vagabond had felt at the sound of trucks. It was Cambridge and not Bediam after all even if it was the drizzle that proved the point. The noise of trunks bumping on the steps of Thayer and Matthews, of Gallatin and Walter Hastings would have jarred on the Vagabond's nerves on a bright sunny day when sounds seemed to reverberate from their origin. But the rain was a dull absorbent muffler. It was like--thought the Vagabond--it was like a ball of wool falling on a Persian...
...outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...