Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt...
...During my younger days in Wall Street I had contact with the older financiers and with the great railroad barons-the ferocious cigar-chewing men who drove back the frontier with every blow on an iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...
...Tufts aggregation started scoring in the second inning, when they drove two runs across in consecutive hits. This batting skirmish was repeated in the fourth and seventh frames, when the Tufts nine scored four runs in each frame...
After their craft capsized the oarsmen clung to it for some time, but despite their efforts the waves drove it against the Basin wall. Later examination revealed an eight inch split in the how and a large hole in the stern...
...total number of extra base hits this year is also greater than at the corresponding time last year. This year's team has knocked six doubles against seven in 1929, nine triples against seven, and nine homers while last season's outfit drove out only five. The team fielding has fallen down. The 27 errors allowed this year were almost entirely misplays in the infield. Every regular member of the infield has been guilty of at least four misplays...