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Word: driving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading room of the public library I noticed the sign, "Because someone is continually stealing TIME, it must be kept at the desk. Ask for it." There is free publicity for you. For several years I have known you are a genius but I never realized you would drive a person to such moral laxity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...used his gun to persuade motorists to give him lifts. Officers traced the police-killer closely for an hour, then lost him. The wrecked car was registered in the name of Frederick Dane, owner of a commodious home on St. Joe's Lake Shore Drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Most Dangerous Man Alive | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...propose to ask the Government to supply the Prince with a tank in which he can drive pellmell through the streets and so destroy all automobiles, bakers' carts, the officers' casino, the academy, the athenaeum, the university, and all state and private institutions, and kill every traffic policeman who tries to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Speed-Fiend Nicholas | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Omaha (population 222,800), with hired solicitors (American City Bureau) and 1,000 volunteers, raised $453,000 in its second successful drive in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith, Hope & Organization | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Last week the name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fosdick Debaptised | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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