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Word: droving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before leaving Prague, Herr Hitler wired his army: CONGRATULATIONS ON RESTORING PEACE AND ORDER IN BOHEMIA IN SPITE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER. Continuing his triumphal tour, Herr Hitler drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Time Table | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Next day the Chamber's native chancellor, the Maharaja of Nawanagar, made a sympathetic speech acknowledging the grievances. Then the princes drove home in their lavender limousines and gold-plated sports jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pearls, Virgins, Elephants | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Hungarian fighting planes also were used in a day of intensive fighting. According to the communiques the Slovaks drove the Hungarians back all along the front...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

Suddenly this week came the news that Ex-Premier Tiso, too, was a hero. Somehow he got out of the monastery and into an airplane-which flew straight to Berlin. Adolf Hitler immediately received him for a 40-minute conference. As the ousted Dr. Tiso drove away, Führer Hitler's Elite Bodyguard rolled out a drum salute reserved for foreign statesmen who are still in office. Dr. Tiso hurried to a telephone and called Premier Sidor in Bratislava: summon the Slovak Parliament, he commanded, for he was coming to read it a declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: Shoulder to Shoulder | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...page pamphlet titled Lest We Regret, Travelers' copy writers drove home the meaning of D. U. to the heavy-footed driver. Energy increases as the square of speed. Thus, if speed is doubled, energy is multiplied four times; if tripled, is multiplied nine times. If 25 miles an hour is the speed of one D. U., 35 is that of two, 50 miles of four, 60 of six and 75 of nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Danger Units | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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