Word: drawings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mindful of last autumn's fiasco with the 4th Liberty Loan redemption (TIME, Oct. 23) the Treasury could afford to take no chances. The interest rate offered was liberal. The maximum maturity of only 58 weeks was calculated to draw out money that was afraid to take long term risks. The offer was well calculated. By nightfall the subscription books were closed. Banks (which had nearly $1,000,000,000 of excess reserves) and other big buyers had nominally offered to take $3,415,000,000 of the 13½ month notes...
...starts pawing Nana for himself. By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point of the story is that Nana, although troublesome, is nice, they do not use them. Nana inconspicuously shoots herself. Dying, she makes the two Muffats shake hands. ". . . I was born," she says, "all wrong...
Back Bay or Bulltown, W. Va. "Harvard must endeavor to draw to its staff the most able investigators and teachers in the world. . . . What they accomplish and those whom they inspire will be the measure of our success...
...takes unusual merit or a great reputation to draw the average Manhattan art critic from his comfortable daily beat up & down the smart art marts of 57th Street. Most of these choosy journalists were down under the Elevated last week picking their way among the packing cases and fruit stands of Greenwich Village. Alexander Brook was having another exhibition at the Downtown Gallery...
...last week in Los Angeles' Olympic Auditorium. Each had scored a fall when Referee Mickey McMasters looked at the clock. It was 11:15, the hour the California Athletic Commission had ordered all wrestling bouts to end. The referee tapped both men's shoulders to signify a draw, sent them from the ring...