Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the second quarter H. H. Broad-bent '32, took the ball down the field and drove a hard shot at the second team goalie. With a desperate effort, Faude stopped the kick, but was drawn out of position far enough to enable Frame to take the shot as it ricochetted from the goal, and drive it back again for another score. The final score for the winners was made by J. W. Carrigan '31, who garnered a goal on a long accurate kick that came at an unexpected moment...
Buenos Aires was Bedlam. But steadily, methodically, hour after hour General Uriburu was bringing fresh troops from suburban garrisons into the Capital. With masterly skill he organized calm, drove the Irigoyenist shotgun-toters off the streets, proved that counter revolution worthy of the name had never existed, made himself highly popular with men of property...
Alfred Daub, Seattle big game hunter, returned to Nairobi, Africa, last week, from a hunting trip, told of a new way to take wild animals pictures. Tying the carcass of a zebra behind a truck, Hunter Daub and his companions drove around the African veldt. Two lions and a lioness smelled the meat, ran after. While the animals fought for the bait, Hunter Daub sat safely in the truck, cranked his camera...
...Cubs. Next day the Cubs won the second game of the series 9 to 8 in the 13th inning, after scoring 5 runs in the ninth to tie, 5-5, pulling even again 8-8 in the nth. In the third game burly Hack Wilson, Cub centrefielder, drove his 45th homerun of the season in the first inning with two men on base and his 46th in the fourth. That put him two homers ahead of the National League record, and two ahead of Babe Ruth of the American League. The Cubs won, 16 to 4, stayed .051 points ahead...
Another early problem was the fact that some residents with automobiles drove to neighboring towns to go shopping, and a few residents even moved out. But this has stopped. Says Dr. Paul B. Lonergan, now president of the Association: "It rid the town of its God-given deadbeats." He is a strong booster of the plan because after two years of practice in Bloomfield he had lost $2,200 through bad debts...