Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale match is going to be a test that will definitely determine the caliber of the Crimson racquet-men. Last week a few of the squad got together an informal team, drove down to Princeton, and were defeated 4 to 1. Yale has previously downed the Tiger aggregation, and now the question is, can they repeat their success in Cambridge. It is not an easy question to answer, but I feel that Cowles' outfit will come out on top. The loss to Princeton does not prove a great deal, and the team, in its regular line-up, will have several...
...touch with affairs of State. "I haven't really seen a newspaper since I left, except the Nassau paper yesterday,"* he told reporters who crowded aboard the yacht to greet him. After dinner the President-elect got into an open automobile with Miami's Mayor Gauthier and drove to Bay Front Park where some 20,000 cheering Floridians and visitors were gathered to see and hear him before he entrained for New York...
Thus began a pathetic one-man filibuster against Repeal. In slow measured words Senator Sheppard recited the decade's doings at Geneva. Monotonously he read from old documents. Slowly he meandered down long columns of figures. His dronings drove Senators from the chamber, left Vice President Curtis suffering silently and alone on the rostrum. Tourists in the gallery gaped down at the spectacle of one little Dry defying the U. S. electorate...
Also last week H. R. H. drove a London subway train over a new extension. Said his instructor: "He's got the makings of a pretty good motorman...
...four-man sleds were trucked to the top of Mount Van Hoevenberg in softening weather. Six other teams in the four-man championship would doubtless have been pleased if all the Stevenses-Hubert, Curtis, Raymond and Paul-had clambered onto the same sled. Instead, Hubert, Curtis and Raymond each drove a sled of his own, placed 1, 2, 3 in the first two heats. Hubert Stevens made his first run in 1:47.79, breaking the course record Curtis had set a week earlier. His second run-.01 sec. slower-gave him a scant 5 sec. lead for the last...