Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give paregoric to a puppy or a baby. "Referring to the mathematics days, do you remember your first day's class at Groton? You stood up at the blackboard-announced to the class that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points-and then tried to draw one. All I can say is that I, too, have never been able to draw a straight line. I am sure you shared my joy when Einstein proved that there ain't no such thing as a straight line...
...utilitarians intend to build a train of such rotor-surmounted trucks and run them around a circular track half a mile in diameter. Thus, on windy days, power companies can draw current from the wind, can let their steam plants idle...
...English arms are used by England's enemies on English soldiers, one feels that the solution to the whole thing is to give every soldier a block of the stock in the major arms company of his country, thus bringing him home rich and satisfying everyone concerned. The authors draw other conclusions; in any case, most will agree that some conclusion to the affair is necessary, to say nothing of unattainable...
...allowed to. The fact remains, however, that young men of this age do drink, and, what is more, nothing will stop them. It is far more appropriate to discriminate between the school boy and the college man, who is supposedly taking care of himself, than arbitrarily to draw the line at the comparatively unsignificant age of twenty...
...track pending investigation. Turfman Joseph Early Widener* revealed last week what his Hialeah Park in Miami will do next season about the lately virulent dope evil. It will adopt the "dope-box," widely used in France and England, for examination of horses. Before each race is run the stewards draw by lot the number of one entry, keep it secret until the finish. Then that horse, no matter how he finished, is led to a special stall ("dope-box") just off the track where a chemist tests his saliva for drugs...