Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin Locomotive Works. A bargain was struck. That evening the priest appeared, riding in a two-horse carriage. He had with him twelve huge gunny sacks stuffed to bursting with 20-lei Rumanian bills. It took until 2 a. m. to count them?after which the priest drove off in his Buick...
Pure Heroism, unsurpassed by men of any race, drove some of the Chinese and some of the Japanese battling at Shanghai last week to supreme efforts, almost unbelievable but reported by correspondents who said they saw what happened. Japanese soldiers, facing Chinese barbed wire entanglements covered at close range by Chinese guns, walked slowly into the wire carrying dynamite, drew upon themselves a Chinese fire which weakened the Chinese entanglements little by little. Among "somewhat wounded" Chinese soldiers (men with perhaps an arm shot off or an eye shot out), a spontaneous movement rose to volunteer as "human bombs." Such...
...radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck. To get it started, the manifold had to be warmed with a blow torch. The November day in 1902 when 999 made its stupendous record at Grosse Pointe, Mich., the young man who drove it sat on a high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask, of the cigar stump which was already as much one of its features as a nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left...
...Capetown, South Africa, where he has been taking a vacation, George Bernard Shaw took tests for an automobile driver's license. He asked the examiner: "How long have you driven?" "Thirty years." Observed Shaw: "Then you soon will drive as well as I." Last week Driver Shaw drove a rented automobile into a ditch, jolting himself severely and injuring his wife's wrist. Meanwhile he heard from London that his ten-year-old fight to have a garbage dump removed from the vicinity of his Hertfordshire home had finally succeeded...
Amerindian Black Elk was born in 1863, in time to see and take part in much of the fighting that drove his race off the free earth into government reservations to decay. Treaty after treaty the Indians drew up with the Wasichus (white men) who took what land they wanted, promised the rest should remain Indian "as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten...