Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge temporary shed of bamboo and matting at torrid Tripuri drove an ambulance one day last week. A patient was carried into the shed and put on a cot between two big ice tanks. Lying there, sipping cooling drinks and medicines, occasionally bidding two young nieces fan his brow, the patient tried to forget a temperature of over 100 as he presided over the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress...
...François-Poncet's car approached, the doors were swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...
When Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...
...outset of the game, Mechem, St. Paul's right wing, scored unassisted in 45 seconds. Al Chandler, Freshman left defense, drove the puck into the net in 1:35. Penetrating deep into enemy territory, center Walt Whittacker scored at 2:30 assisted by wings Dreher and Ayres. With St. Paul's tallying up two more goals, the score at the end of the first period...
...North American's successful reshaping was not the least significant. It was: 1) the first publicly offered bond issue of 1939, and thus broke the capital market's ominous stagnation; 2) the first major public utility holding company financing since passage of the death sentence drove the industry into financial hibernation four years...