Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well-paid business and professional men called to the colors or the Government, or dismissed from their civilian positions. Their domestic overhead was out of all proportion to Army or civil service pay, and if the husband had no job at all, there was nothing to do but draw on savings...
...said that, after sinking the Royal Sceptre, he set out to intercept the Browning because "I wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship. I now had to make it clear to those terrified people that they were to get back into the boat again and save the crew of the Royal Sceptre...
...lose or draw, one place no one wanted to put money was in investments for income. American Tel. & Tel., which had paced the market earlier in 1939 (high $170 1/8) when people wanted the $9 it pays per share, without realizing it wasn't earning $9 a share, lazed at $161 7/8 (Aug. 31 close: $160 7/8); yet it is now earning at the rate of $9 for the first time in two years...
...buffer state" between Russia and Germany. This was even mooted in an official Moscow broadcast. Brushing it aside, the High Commands decided that no sufficient Polish authority remained in Poland last week to form the nucleus of a useful buffer, that the only thing to do was to draw the technically strongest possible frontier, separating the Russian and German Armies by the physical expanse of three great Polish rivers, the Narew, the Vistula...
Exemplifying this trend is Ernest Fiene, German-born American painter. His oil, Night Shift, strongly protests against the humanity-stifling power of industry and its ever-increasing tendency to draw the life-blood from the individuality of the laborers. We see a group of shabbily-dressed workers slowly trudging toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter...