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Word: droving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wherever the winds and current drove the aviators, it soon became apparent that they were not in the vicinity of the Phoenix Islands. But the searchers had a couple of exciting moments. Once, said Chase, we thought we saw a light on the horizon, but it turned out to be heat lightning. Again, we really did see a light on the horizon, but it was no plane, merely, Venus putting in a 2 A.M. appearance...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Heat Lightning, Venus, but No Planes, Seen In ROTC Search | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

Skip Stahley's Yardling squad was admitted to the practice game in the Stadium Saturday and they sat through three quarters observing the technique of their Varsity brothers. But with the close of the third quarter the coach snapped his mythical but nonetheless effective long black whip and drove his pack out to their grid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1941 Football Candidates Watch Varsity's Trial Game | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Loudspeakers summoned the populace to the streets night before the Congress opened as doughty Adolf Hitler arrived by plane, drove through the town to the modest little Deutscher Hof, arm bobbing up & down in salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Million Heils | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...radical Methodist Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churches & Labor | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...year, he has lived in Fort Worth, home town of his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins. Last June, as quietly as possible, Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt contracted in her own name to buy the dinky loo-watt Station KFJZ at Fort Worth. Last month, Elliott himself drove unheralded to San Antonio, sipped a highball, autographed a legal document and thereby contracted in his own name to buy another 100-watter, (250 watts in the daytime) Station KABC at San Antonio. Both deals are subject to approval. by the Federal Radio Communications Commission which last week held its hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: KABC, KFJ2P | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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