Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proof that Harvard had discovered a new defense even in the form of a scoreless tie would have been satisfactory, but early in the last quarter Wells decided to try the Crimson's own passing possibilities, and with three passes, interspersed with running attacks, drove his team for the first time in three weeks deep down into enemy territory...
Perhaps most surprising of all aspects of this Harvard revival was the work done by the substitutes. Most notable in the backfield was Waters, who, assisted ably by Barret's three and four-yard line plunges, caught a ten-yard pass, and a minute later easily drove the ball over on the last down. Rushed often by a Holy Cross line which seeped in uncomfortably fast and slowed up by poor passes from center, Waters got off risky kicks from the extremity of the end zone, and several times Barely before they were blocked...
Tear gas was used, four officers were injured, twelve marchers were locked up, several banners demanding "Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys" were torn down and confiscated when Washington police drove 100 demonstrators of the International Labor Defense off the Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama...
...which he said was owing his wife for cooking at Taliesin. They scuffled fell in the gutter, Sechrest's knee broke Wright's nose. Two nights later five of Wright's students called on Sechrest with a blacksnake whip, shouting "Kill the s-o-b-!" Sechrest drove them out with a butcher knife, had them arrested. The judge thought $100 fine and 60 days in jail "inadequate...
Flashback: In 1915 Henry Harlan Pyle drove a team from his father's farm to the Forest Hill general store, chaffed Hazel Roe and Bessie Walbeck who were busy packing eggs for shipment. Playful Henry Pyle tickled the girls, wrote their names & addresses on several eggs. Whenever he went to Forest Hill thereafter he asked the girls whether any egg-eaters had written to them. At length he married Bessie Walbeck, had five children. Hazel Roe married and moved to Belair, Md. There last fortnight she received Edgar R. Dobson's letter...