Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McGrath, Mays, and Wood led the Harvard batting. In the first inning the Harvard captain drove a ball into deep left field for a home run. In the eighth stanza Wood connected with a slow ball pitched by Berger for the other home run of the game...
...cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet in 1905; bits of the other bomb that killed a dozen bystanders and soldiers on his wedding day, splattered himself and his bride with blood. There is also a revolver. That revolver was fired at him repeatedly by one Sanchez Alegre as Alfonso rode through the streets...
Baldwin, the Blue's Hawaiian star, broke through the Harvard riders for a total of six goals. Yale cut down the Crimson lead in the first two chukkers, tied the score in the third, and drove in three goals in the last period for a comfortable lead over their opponents...
...three comrades who tried to escape (TIME, March 2), angered with the news that another prisoner had died while shackled in solitary confinement, 1,100 convicts at Joliet (Ill.) State Penitentiary dashed their food to the floor and rioted in the mess hall one noon last week. Guards drove most of them into the prison yard, fired at their feet with shotguns. Another group isolated itself in the kitchens, was later subdued. Within an hour all were herded back to their cells. Casualties: one prisoner killed; one guard and three convicts wounded. The Joliet penitentiary was constructed to house...
...Brooklands, England, G. E. T. Eyston drove a supercharged M. G. Midget car 96.93 m.p.h. for one mile, breaking the world's record held by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell. On crawling out of his Midget, Driver Eyston said he was disappointed because he had not gone 100 m.p.h., blamed a hoodoo...