Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane and two pilots of Eurasia Corp. were forced down in a storm last fortnight. Another of the company's planes flew out to search, sighted the missing craft in the Mongolian desert. But when the rescuers glided low for a landing, a band of tribesmen shot at them, drove them up and away again. The searchers saw no sign of the stranded pilots...
...made a birdie four. After holding a lead of now one and now two strokes. Hagen dropped the fifteenth and sixteenth, where Alliss sank a 30-ft. putt, and they came to the seventeenth all even. Alliss thereupon sliced his drive to take a par four while Hagen drove straight down the fairway, approached well, quickly sank his putt. The last hole was halved. Hagen's total score: 423; Alliss...
...Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering citizens. As President Moscicki came abreast of rank after rank of Poznan citizens most of them shouted: "Long live Paderewski!", a few "Long live Mrs. Wilson," none shouted "Long live President Moscicki." The President. Mrs. Wilson and friends rode...
...next day, Burke needed a four for a 149; Von Elm, a stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from cup. He studied the green, tapped the ball with the air of a man accustomed to miracles, watched it drop for another birdie, another...
...Mather & Co.). Lakeside has long been the teaching hospital for Western Reserve University's school of medicine. The two institutions used to be downtown, a half-mile from Mr. Mather's mansion on lower Euclid Avenue. The increase of smoky Cleveland factories and busy commercial buildings a generation ago drove the first families to the city's eastern outskirts. But Mr. Mather still lives downtown...