Word: drawed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paddle-wheel satellite will not try for Venus, but will follow a long elliptical orbit that will take it about 30,000 miles from the earth. It will carry various instruments, but its principal job will be to answer promptly when spoken to. If all goes well, it will draw on its stored solar power and speak in a loud radio voice. Then its designers can judge whether a transmitter of this type can be made loud enough to be heard from Venus...
...Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play upon courses which seem to be suspended in mid-Atlantic, uncertain whether to nationalize in yesterday's Surrey or today's Eastern Seaboard...
...college teachers will be needed by 1970, institutions of higher learning can only count on having about 236,000 qualified instructors, Elder predicted. While large, well-established universities like Harvard will still be able to obtain top-quality teachers, many small liberal arts colleges will find it difficult to draw enough qualified men to cope with the vast increase expected in enrollment...
...sequence ends in a simple song composed by Marion Abeson, a Manhattan attorney's wife who has sold more than 5,000,000 records of her songs for children. Mrs. Abeson usually dreams up the strip continuity, too, hands her ideas over to Freelance Artist Marvin Friedman to draw...
...Louis Sullivan, the master skyscraper builder. Though Wright had only three years of engineering training at the University of Wisconsin, Sullivan hired him. But to fellow draftsmen the young Wisconsin countryman, with his flowing tie and long hair, was a natural butt for jokes. Wright fought them to a draw, in eluding one brawl from which he emerged with eleven knife wounds in his back...