Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conboy is a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington. D. C., in the class of 1898. Since 1993 he has been a member of the law firm of Griggs. Baldwin & Baldwin. During the World War he was director of the draft for New York City. He is a member of the American Bar Association and New York State Bar Association...
Allenby's Note. It took Lord Allenby exactly one hour and a half to read the note of the Egyptian Government, draft a reply and have it delivered to the Egyptian Foreign office. The note read...
...sophisticates" tosses a volume to eager admirers. In this case, it is his first book, an autobiographical volume. We see the young Armenian in his early days as a lonely essayist in London. We meet for the first time Shelmerdene, "that lovely lady." We find incorporated a first draft of the first story in These Charming People. We learn, in a gracefully whimsical introduction, how it was that Mr. Dikran Kuyumjian chanced to adopt the less complex and more indigenous cognomen under which he has become so pleasantly-and to himself, profitably-known. On the whole, The London Venture will...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
Uncle Shiras Graham, general octogenarian reprobate, whose life was saddened when he bought his way out of the Civil War draft, dies after the heartbreaking discovery that $50,000,000 could not all be profitably used in the interests of monkey glands...