Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest victory of Spain's present Civil War, swift-marching, ruthlessly bayoneting White regulars of the Spanish Army, the polyglot Foreign Legion and their tough Moorish mercenaries drove up to the city of Toledo by the back way last week, shot and stuck and butchered through Red Militia fighting like wildcats in the narrow streets with machine guns chattering on every corner, finally burst into the bloodier streets of the Old City and forced their way to its rocky heights to relieve the besieged Alcázar Fortress, the heroic West Point of Spain (TIME, Sept...
...second-place Detroit. Altogether, the team had made 182 home runs, an average of more than one for each game, nine more than the record set by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total of 1,065 runs just missed an-other all-time high. With Gehrig, Dickey, Di Maggio, Selkirk, Crosetti and Lazzeri in the lineup, the Yankees appear to be the hardest-hitting team in the history of modern baseball. Last week they...
North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye suffered slight leg bruises when his automobile jumped the highway near Edgeley after ramming a drove of pigs...
Thirty minutes of the scrimmage was devoted to defensive work, before Harlow allowed the A team to take the ball against a mixed eleven composed of Jayvees and Varsity C men. The first team drove the length of the field twice, interupted only by one intercepted pass. Bill Watt crashed over for the first score from the 3 yard line after a series of line gains had put the ball in position...
...start in the Episcopal Home for Boys at Lawrenceville, near Pittsburgh, emerging at 14 to a $2 a week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved up to foreman at a time when a foreman's traditional duty was to lick any man he could not persuade. Later Harry Sheldon became plant manager, moved into a white-collar office...