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Word: droving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fleeing from a host of reporters, Dwight W. Morrow Jr., a second year graduate student, drove away to seek the seclusion of the country yesterday afternoon. State police are still awaiting word from Morrow before taking definite action on the that of family correspondence containing information about the Lindberg case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dwight Morrow Vanishes into Country to Flee From Persistent Newspapermen | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

Clearly superior in every phase of the game, the Crimson team was paced by Skiddy von Stade, who drove in four goals to continue his high scoring record. Captain Ed Gerry and Townsend Winmill, each tallying twice, were outstanding for their defensive work which prevented the Freebooters from getting many shots at the goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Week-end Sports | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...early one morning, on an empty stomach, the President boarded his special in Washington, after breakfast alighted in Philadelphia, drove to Temple University where he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. Then he hustled back to his train, whizzed off toward Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Flies | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held in Washington three days later, that to attend it he would have to cut short his vacation. Then the President chugged off to Hyde Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Flies | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Port Arthur. After the first on-set Togo never let up; he raided them, hammered them by indirect fire when they hid in the harbor, finally exasperated them into a dash for Vladivostok. Then, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Togo gave the Russians a fearful pounding, drove the shattered remnants of the fleet back to Port Arthur, where he potted them at long distance one by one, "like beasts in a pit." Meanwhile the Russian Baltic Fleet was under way, coming all the long way round the Cape of Good Hope. Nervous about Japanese torpedo-boats before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Dog | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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